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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

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作 者:Douglas Porch

出 版 社:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

出版时间:2004-05-19

I S B N:9780374205188

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"A thoughtful account of an important theater of military operations." -- Library Journal (starred review)"Illuminating . . . Porch’s analysis is sharp and to the point...his skills as a storyteller will please readers of narrative history." -- Kirkus Reviews"Supple and absorbing...a monumental work and a major contribution to our understanding of World War II." -- The Washington Post"[a] stout history of the Mediterranean campaign in World War II. . . Porch writes clearly and accessibly... essential." -- Roland Green, Booklist

内容简介

The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked 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 our finest military historians argues that the Mediterranean was World War II s pivotal theater. 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 theaters; 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 theater emphasizes the importance of the Mediterranean in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe in World War II.

作者简介

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.

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