Douglas Porch

Douglas Porch (born 29 December 1944) is an American military historian and academic. He currently serves as a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and is the former Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs for the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.^[1]

Biography

He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee in 1967 and a Ph. D. from Cambridge University in 1972. He has been a professor of strategy at the Naval War College, a guest lecturer at the Marine Corps University, a post-doctoral research fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Mark W. Clark Professor of History at The Citadel.^[1]

Dr. Porch has written more than eight books and numerous other publications, mostly about French military history and French Colonialism. These books have been published in both French and English.

Bibliography

• The French Foreign Legion: The Complete History of the Legendary Fighting Force, (1992)
• The March to the Marne: The French Army 1871-1914, (2003)
• The Path to Victory (2004)
• The French Secret Services, (1997)
• The Conquest of the Sahara
• The Conquest of Morocco
• Army and Revolution; France 1815-1848, (1974)
• Hitler's Mediterranean Gamble: The North African and the Mediterranean Campaigns in World War II Weidenfeld & Nicolson; First Edition edition (10 Jun 2004)

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