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100 1 $aPorch, Douglas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81057155
245 14 $aThe path to victory :$bthe Mediterranean Theater in World War II /$cDouglas Porch.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2004.
300 $axiv, 796 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 771-779) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: A strategist's nightmare -- Chapter 1: 1940: War comes to the Mediterranean -- Chapter 2: "The Norway of Mediterranean" -- Chapter 3: Tactical triumphs, strategic misjudgments -- Chapter 4: Rommel's war: a perfect battlefield -- Chapter 5: "The great kingdom of terror" -- Chapter 6: Monty's war: El Alamein-the unnecessary battle? -- Chapter 7: "FDR's secret baby" -- Chapter 8: Tunisia: "the Verdun of the Mediterranean" -- Chapter 9: Husky: "one continent redeemed" -- Chapter 10: "The Mediterranean year" -- Chapter 11: The incomplete victory -- Chapter 12: The Mediterranean road to France's resurrection, 1940-45 -- Chapter 13: Cassino without the monastery: cracking the gothic line -- Conclusion: The pivotal theater.
520 1 $a"The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by those who believe it was little more than a string of small-scale battles - sideshows that were of minor importance in a war whose outcome was decided in the clashes of mammoth tank armies in northern Europe. But in this book, one of our finest military historians argues that the Mediterranean was, in fact, World War II's pivotal theater." "In The Path to Victory, Porch examines the Mediterranean as an integrated arena, one in which events in Syria and Suez influenced the survival of Gibraltar. Churchill's controversial decision in 1940 to contest the Axis in the Mediterranean, followed by Roosevelt's insistence two years later that his service chiefs undergo a Mediterranean initiation, laid the foundation for Allied victory in Europe. Although conventional wisdom argues that Hitler could not have won World War II in the Mediterranean, Porch believes that the Allies might well have lost had they not elected to fight there. Decisions made in this theater matured the Western Alliance, seriously damaged and dispersed the formidable Axis military machine, and forged the combined Anglo-American effort that was to be unstoppable when transferred to Northern Europe in June 1944."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zMediterranean Region.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010007939
651 0 $aMediterranean Sea$xStrategic aspects.
651 0 $aMediterranean Region$xHistory$y20th century.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol042/2003060845.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hD766$i.P67 2004
852 00 $bmil$hD766$i.P67 2004