title: The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II
titlecomplete: The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II
description: "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 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.
genres: Military History, Military Fiction, War, History, World War II, Nonfiction
publisher: Konecky & Konecky
ratings_count: 115
num_pages: 796
language: English