Douglas Porch, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $35 (796p) ISBN 978-0-374-20518-8
Most writing on the Mediterranean theater in WWII addresses specific campaigns: the desert war, the battle for Tunisia, the long struggle for Italy. A professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Porch (The French Secret...
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Douglas Porch, Author Fromm International $11.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-88064-057-2
Historian Porch tells the story of France's subjugation of Morocco at the turn of the century, which was to be France's last major colonial acquisition. Drawing on memoirs and other writings, Porch tells how internal challenges to the unstable rule...
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Douglas Porch, Author HarperCollins Publishers $35 (728p) ISBN 978-0-06-016652-6
In spite of its high desertion rate, its fatal preference for frontal assault and resistance to modernization, the polyglot, multinational force known as the French Foreign Legion has maintained a reputation for do-or-die combat ferocity since its...
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Douglas Porch, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $32.5 (623p) ISBN 978-0-374-15853-8
This academic study of France's intelligence services traces the influence of intelligence estimates on French policy formulation and strategic decisions. Porch has pinned down an elusive subject (archival restrictions are severe), focusing on the...
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