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The path to victory : the Mediterranean Theater in World War II
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- Creator
- Douglas Porch
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 796 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374205188, 0374205183
- OCLC
- ocm52901330
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 771-779) and index.
- Introduction: 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