Derek Law Bibliography

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PEARCE, M. J.  Confronting Italy: Mediterranean Surface Actions in 1940. Exploding the Myth of Mussolini’s ‘Mare Nostrum (Britannia Naval Histories of World War II). 192p., illus. Plymouth: University of Plymouth Press, 2019. ISBN: 1841024392.

This volume contains three previously classified Naval Staff Histories describing major naval surface actions of 1940, supported by a modern introduction setting them in context and also illustrates warships involved, using WW2 US Navy Intelligence Department documents. Two Official Despatches are also included. The Staff Histories are: No. 2, The Battle of Calabria; No. 8. The Battle of Spartivento; No. 9, The Battle of Cape Spada. The Despatches are no. 38273, The Battle off Calabria and no. 38281, The Battle of Cape Spartivento.