The sea and the rise of the dictators: Italy, 1919–1940
Knox, M.
(2017).
The sea and the rise of the dictators: Italy, 1919–1940.
In
Buchet, C. & Rodger, N.
(Eds.),
The Sea in History - The Modern World
(pp. 542 - 552).
Boydell & Brewer.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782049111.054
Poets and visionaries had lamented that Italy was “the prisoner of the Mediterranean”; Mussolini took the phrase as a guide to strategy and built up a modern navy “to gain free access to the oceans.” In practice, command of the central Mediterranean proved to be excessively ambitious without aircraft carriers or air force cooperation, and Italy lacked the oil to fuel its new battlefleet.
| Item Type | Chapter |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2017 The Author |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > International History |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781782049111.054 |
| Date Deposited | 17 Nov 2020 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107459 |