The path to victory : the Mediterranean Theater in World War II
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The path to victory : the Mediterranean Theater in World War II
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004
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  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
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  Tokushima
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 771-779) and index
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Description
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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