JAMES J. SADKOVICH is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. His two previous books are Reevaluating Major Naval Combatants of World War II (Greenwood, 1990) and Italian Support of Croatian Separatism, 1927-1937 (1987).

• Building a NavyOpening Shots: Punta Stilo, Capo Spada, and MaltaBritish Harassment and Italian PerseveranceThe War in EarnestA Difficult SummerCrisis and ResolutionAxis DominancePyrrhic VictoriesWinning the Battle, Losing the WarAssessing the Damage and Picking a WinnerBibliographyIndex

JAMES J. SADKOVICH is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. His two previous books are Reevaluating Major Naval Combatants of World War II (Greenwood, 1990) and Italian Support of Croatian Separatism, 1927-1937 (1987).

• Building a NavyOpening Shots: Punta Stilo, Capo Spada, and MaltaBritish Harassment and Italian PerseveranceThe War in EarnestA Difficult SummerCrisis and ResolutionAxis DominancePyrrhic VictoriesWinning the Battle, Losing the WarAssessing the Damage and Picking a WinnerBibliographyIndex

JAMES J. SADKOVICH is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. His two previous books are Reevaluating Major Naval Combatants of World War II (Greenwood, 1990) and Italian Support of Croatian Separatism, 1927-1937 (1987).

• Building a NavyOpening Shots: Punta Stilo, Capo Spada, and MaltaBritish Harassment and Italian PerseveranceThe War in EarnestA Difficult SummerCrisis and ResolutionAxis DominancePyrrhic VictoriesWinning the Battle, Losing the WarAssessing the Damage and Picking a WinnerBibliographyIndex