The Bitter Sea: The Brutal World War II Fight for the MediterraneanA gripping history of the Mediterranean campaigns from the first rumblings of conflict through the Second World War and into the uneasy peace of the late 1940s. The Mediterranean Sea lies at the very heart of recent world history. To the British during the Second World War, the Mediterranean was the worlds great thoroughfare. To the Americans, it represented the answer to anti imperialism. And to Mussolini, it encapsulated his violent vision of