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Decisive Battles : From Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm.
What makes a battle decisive? Jonathon Riley draws on his personal experience as a soldier and historian to explore the definitive battles of the modern era from Yorktown in 1781 to Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Each battle included is a turning point, the outcome of which has changed the face of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 What Is Decisive?; 2 Yorktown, 1781: The World Turned Upside Down; 3 Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo, 1815: The Hundred Days; 4 Gettysburg and the Siege of Vicksburg, 1863: Confederate High Tide; 5 Sedan, 1870: Birth and Death of Empire; 6 Third Gaza, 1917: Strategic Diversion, Tactical Deception; 7 Amiens, 1918: The Black Day of the German Army; 8 The Arakan, Imphal and Kohima, 1944: Smashing the Myth; 9 The Ardennes, 1944: Hitlerâ#x80;#x99;s Last Gamble; 10 Dien Bien Phu, 1954: Wind of Change; 11 Kuwait, 1990â#x80;#x93;91: Desert Storm.
- 12 The Twenty-first Century: Is Decisive Victory Still Possible?Bibliography; Index of Persons; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.