Summary Part of The Mediterranean in WWII week on WW2TV Our guest today is Richard Hammond. Richard is a historian and Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London. His first book Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War was published with Cambridge University Press in 2020. He has published articles in War in History, The International History Review the Journal of Military History, the Journal of Strategic Studies and Air Power Review. Two of these have been awarded prestigious prizes: the Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History (Proxime Accessit) by the Institute for Historical Research and a Moncado Prize by the Society for Military History. Richard is also Vice-President of the Second World War Research Group and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Richard Hammond will talk about the sources of Allied victory in the aero-naval war in the Mediterranean, including industrial capacity, strategy and geography, which enabled them to defeat the Axis powers in a war of attrition.

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