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The path to victory (Record no. 38936)

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2003060845
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0374205183 (alk. paper)
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code mm-----
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library AJMA
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number D766
Item number .P67 2004
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 940.54215 Por
Item number 15
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 940.54215 Por
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Porch, Douglas
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The path to victory
Remainder of title the Mediterranean Theater in World War II /
Statement of responsibility, etc Douglas Porch.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2004.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiv, 796 p., [16] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill., maps ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 771-779) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc From the Publisher: The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by those 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 groundbreaking new book, one of our finest military historians argues that the Mediterranean was, in fact, World War II's pivotal theater. In The Path to Victory, Porch examines the Mediterranean as an integrated arena, one in which events in Syria and Suez influenced the survival of Gibraltar. Churchill's controversial decision in 1940 to contest the Axis in the Mediterranean, followed by Roosevelt's insistence two years later that his service chiefs undergo a Mediterranean initiation, laid the foundation for Allied victory in Europe. Although conventional wisdom argues that Hitler could not have won World War II in the Mediterranean, Porch believes that the Allies might well have lost had they not elected to fight there. Decisions made in this theater matured the Western Alliance, seriously damaged and dispersed the formidable Axis military machine, and forged the combined Anglo-American effort that was to be unstoppable when transferred to Northern Europe in June 1944. The Middle Sea constituted a strategic piece of a global war: it was a passage that linked far-flung theaters; protected 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, and 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 during World War II.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note 83940
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element World War
General subdivision Campaigns
Geographic subdivision Mediterranean Region
Chronological subdivision 1939-1945
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Mediterranean Sea
General subdivision Strategic aspects
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Mediterranean Region
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 20th century
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type 900 - 999
Holdings
Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Permanent Location Current Location Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Public note
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