The Path of Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II - Hardcover

Porch, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374205183 ISBN 13: 9780374205188

Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The Mediterranean theatre in World War II has long been over looked by historians 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 ground-breaking new book, one of the finest military historians argues that the Mediterranean was World War II's pivotal theatre. Douglas Porch examines the Mediterranean as an integrated arena, one in which events in Syria and Suez influenced the survival of Gibraltar. The Middle Sea constituted a strategic piece of a global war where crucial military decisions were made: it was a passage that linked far-flung theatres; saved scarce Allied shipping; became an essential conduit for lend-lease aid to the USSR; offered France a testing ground for its rehabilitation as a military power; and provided an entry point into southern Germany for two Allied armies. Without a Mediterranean alternative, the Western Allies would probably have committed to a premature cross-Channel invasion in 1943 that might well have cost them the war. Brilliantly argued, with vivid portraits of Churchill, Montgomery, FDR, Rommel, and Mussolini, this original, accessible, and compelling account of a little-known theatre emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe in World War II.

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Douglas Porch is a military historian and the author of five previous books, including The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War (FSG, 1995). He is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Douglas Porch is a military historian and the author of five previous books, including The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War (FSG, 1995). He is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0374205183
• ISBN 13: 9780374205188
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 768
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