With the publication of "Riviera to the Rhine", the Center of Military History completes its series of operational histories treating the activities of the U.S.

The Mediterranean theater in World War II has long been overlooked by historians who believe it was little more than a string of small-scale battles--sideshows

(Includes maps) This volume, the second to be published in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations subseries, takes up where George F. Howe's Northwest Africa: