The Cunningham Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope : The ... 1939-1942 (Navy Records Society Publications)

This first volume explores Cunningham's strategy and operations from June 1940 to March 1942. Included here are the clash with the Italian Fleet off Calabria in July 1940 and the victory at Matapan in March 1941, together with the Fleet Air Arm attack on Taranto in November 1940. The book deals also with the bitter fighting in the waters around Greece and Crete in the Spring of 1941, the Navy's support of Army operations in the Western Desert, and convoys to Malta, together with activities of the striking forces based there. The volume consists of some 325 edited documents drawn from Cunningham's personal papers and his reports found in the Admiralty and War Cabinet records, accompanied by introductory essays.