1st Edition

The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919-1929

By Paul Halpern Copyright 2011
648 Pages
by Routledge

648 Pages
by Routledge

656 Pages
by Routledge

Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and to a lesser extent, the Adriatic. Naval commanders were faced with complex problems in a situation of neither war nor peace. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires created a vacuum of power in which different factions... Read more

Part I: 1919: The Untidy Aftermath Of The War, Part Ii: 1920: The Black Sea And The Sea Of Marmora, Part Iii: 1921–1923: The Turkish Crisis. Part Iv: 1924–1929: The ‘Normal’ Years.

Biography

Professor Paul Halpern is retired from the Department of History, Florida State University, USA.

'The Navy Records Society is particularily fortunate in its choice of editors. Paul Halpern, professor emeritus at Florida State University, is arguably the most knowledgeable naval historian concerning matters Mediterranean generally and certainly the best informed concerning this period... this is a very useful collection... of particular interest to non-naval historians.' International Journal of Maritime History