"O'Hara's book is not just a well-written history, it illuminates the enduring objectives, principles and risks that would be part of future naval convoy warfare.  Despite advances in technology, if the United States is someday forced by circumstances to convoy material to a besiged Taiwan, it will encounter issues and dilemmas similar to those described by O'Hara."  --Sam J. Tangredi, CAPT USN (Ret.), Leidos Chair of Future Warfare Studies and Director, Institute for Future Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College

This highly-readable work is a gold mine of new information from British and Italian archives. Its integration of operations and intelligence shows the hardest fought period of the Mediterranean war at sea in a new and compelling light. –Enrico Cernuschi, author of Sea Power the Italian Way

"The author combines broad coverage of the Mediterranean naval war’s early years with detailed descriptions of naval actions to produce a broad and balanced analysis of the problems the Allied and Axis powers faced in their struggle for maritime supremacy. Six Victories is a masterful representation of detailed research and deserves to become the standard work on the subject." — John Roberts, Naval author and illustrator, former editor of the annual Warship, author of British Battlecruisers 1905 – 1920 and the Anatomy of the Ship Volumes on Hood and Dreadnought.

“Replete with excellent photographs, maps, tables and charts, this book is certainly very detailed but it is clear and easy to follow. Very valuable history.” —Ausmarine

“I recommend this book as adding a valuable perspective on naval operations in the Second World War and for giving the Italian Navy the credit it is due for a series of well-executed operations that deserve to be more widely understood.” —The Australian Naval Institute

“The well-organised content and discoveries of untouched details making O’Hara’s Six Victories is a scholar’s treasury for every naval and maritime Historian. The book provides us with a shed of light on further understanding the uniqueness of the Mediterranean region during the Second World War. He successfully achieved what he supposed to do with the book, and the experiences of sea power generated from this book are still worthy for the strategists and naval officers today.” —The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord

“Six Victories is an excellent read for anyone with an interest in naval operations, and particularly the Mediterranean during World War II.” —StrategyPage

“This is an important work on the struggle for control of the Mediterranean and is recommended for specialists and general readers interested in World War II at sea.” —The Journal of Military History

“Six Victories offers an informative new slant on operations in the Med. during that critical period, and is recommended.” —The Naval Review

“Six Victories is an up close and personal look at the factors that led to triumph and reversal, told from the perspective of 'the hundreds of details that are the true fathers of victory.' This work is a significant contribution to the naval history of the Mediterranean theater of World War II and one that students of naval history will surely want on their shelf.” —Naval Historical Foundation

“Melvin G. Deaile's Always at War is a welcome addition to a growing literature about the early years of the United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC). Deaile (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina) is a retired USAF bomber pilot. Using archival resources at the Air Force Historical Research Agency and the National Archives, as well as oral histories and recollections by SAC veterans, he has written a compelling study of the challenges of creating and sustaining a premier fighting force dedicated to deterring war by maintaining high levels of readiness throughout the forty long years of the Cold War….  A superb historical study of the first US nuclear deterrent force, as well as a discerning meditation on the leadership and culture of high-reliability and high-performing military units.” —Michigan War Studies Review

“This is a very readable work offering a wealth of new information from British and Italian archives. The book is illustrated with a good ... selection of contemporary photographs. More importantly, there are some excellent maps of the major actions and a large number of tables, most notably showing the damage to supply ships on both sides. There is a broad and balanced analysis of the problems the Allied and Axis powers faced in their struggle for maritime supremacy. The book’s integration of operations, logistics, and intelligence with detailed descriptions of the many actions in these five months show the hardest-fought period of the Mediterranean war at sea in a different and persuasive light, clearly linking it to the land war in North Africa. Thoroughly recommended.” —The Mariner’s Mirror

“In Six Victories, Vincent O'Hara has made a most welcome and timely contribution to the history of the Second World War, which is being rewritten at the operational/tactical level in recent years.” —Michigan War Studies Review

“Six Victories [is] a good read, especially for anyone interested in naval operations in the Mediterranean…. Vincent O'Hara has written a lot of interesting naval books and Six Victories is a good addition to that group. From a wargamer's point of view, this book can provide some great ideas for setting up battles or a mini-campaign. It provides a good commander's eye view of the battles that can be used to implement some good ‘fog of war’ rules for battle scenarios.” —Naval Gazing

“O'Hara's book offers a detailed reconstruction of the naval actions described, deserving credit for proving that the effectiveness of the Italian navy at a tactical level was better than Anglo-American studies usually have acknowledged.” —U.S. Naval War College