Taranto

I am curious if anyone out there is able to recommend a quality English language book or two that covers the attacks on the Italian fleet at Taranto and possibly about the naval operations in the Med.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

It's been a couple of decades since I read it, but IIRC _To War in a Stringbag_ may be just what you are looking for, or at least would make a start. It's a first-person account by an RNAF pilot who flew one of the Swordfish in the operation. His account also describes operations both before and until the end of the war.

'To War in a Stringbag' gives a participating pilot's appreciation of the planning and execution of that operation.

A recent, well-researched and unbiased account of the Mediterranean war is: The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1940-1943 By G. Greene, A. Massignani Chatham Publishing

Regards

There's a new book coming out called 'Swordfish: The Story of the Taranto Raid' listed on Amazon at:

The Attack on Taranto by Thomas P. Lowry and John W.G. Wellham, Stackpole Books, 1995, ISBN 0-8117-1726-7

The Attack on Taranto, Blueprint for Pearl Harbor, by T. P Lowry and J. W. G. Wellham (see the reviews on Amazon.com).

About the broader picture, naval ops in the Med, not quite outstanding but solid, complete and anyway fairer than hyper-biased British accounts is Greene & Massignani's Naval War in the Mediterranean.