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  Title

  The path to victory : the Mediterranean Theater in World War II

  Author

  Porch, Douglas.  

  Publisher:

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

  Pub date:

  2004.

  Pages:

  xiv, 796 p., [16] p. of plates :

  ISBN:

  0374205183

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Adult: Non-fiction	940.5423 POR	1	Book

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  Personal Author:

  Porch, Douglas.

  Title:

  The path to victory : the Mediterranean Theater in World War II / Douglas Porch.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

  Physical description:

  xiv, 796 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

  Contents:

  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.

  Subject term:

  World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Mediterranean Region.

  Geographic term:

  Mediterranean Sea--Strategic aspects.

  Geographic term:

  Mediterranean Region--History--20th century.

  key:

  ocm52901330

  ISBN:

  0374205183 (alk. paper)