| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945. By Barbara Brooks Tomblin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. xiv, 578 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2338-0.)

Writing this sizable study of U.S. and British naval operations in the Mediterranean theater during World War II was clearly a labor of love for the historian Barbara Brooks Tomblin. Convinced, with good reason, that the U.S. Navy's wartime activities in theaters other than the Pacific had received far too little attention from naval historians, Tomblin decided to invest her intellectual energy in an examination of the development of amphibious warfare in the Mediterranean. At the time she began her research more than thirty years ago, using the voluminous collection of World War II action reports and war diaries at the Naval History Division's Classified Operational Archives Branch, limits on photocopying meant that Tomblin was required to rely on note-taking for the bulk of her archival efforts. One fortunate aspect of beginning her research during the 1960s, however, was that she was able to interview, or correspond with, a number of relatively senior naval officers who had taken part in the Mediterranean operations under investigation.

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