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The Path of Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II  

ISBN: 0374205183  

RRP: $35.00

Author: Douglas Porch

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pub Date: May 2004

A Groundbreaking One-Volume History of World War II in the Mediterranean

'The Path to Victory' is a new major work of scholarship by acclaimed military historian Douglas Porch. It emphasizes the unrecognized importance of this almost forgotten theater, without which D-Day would never have been able to succeed.

While many historians have overlooked the Mediterranean campaign as a string of small scale battles of a war whose outcome was decided by the clashes in Northern Europe, 'The Path to Victory' demonstrates how the war in the Mediterranean 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 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 may well have cost us the war.

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