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Battling the Elements : Weather and Terrain in the Conduct of War /
Throughout history, from Kublai Khan's attempted invasions of Japan to Rommel's desert warfare, military operations have succeeded or failed on the ability of commanders to incorporate environmental conditions into their tactics. In Battling the Elements, geographer Harold A. Winters and f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- War and geography : introduction
- Storms, fair weather, and chance : Kamikazes, Dunkirk, and Normandy
- Too much and too wet : the Civil War mud march and Flanders' Fields
- Clouds and fog : the Bulge and Khe Sanh
- Invading another climate as seasons change : Napoleon and Hitler in Russia
- Forests and jungles : the Wilderness and the Ia Drang Valley
- Terrains and corridors : the American Civil War's eastern theater and World War I Verdun
- Troubled waters : River crossings at Arnhem and Remagen
- Glaciers shape the land : Alpine fighting and the road to Moscow
- Peninsulas and sea coasts : Anzio and Inchon
- Island battles : Tarawa and Iwo Jima
- Hot, wet, and sick : New Guinea and Dien Bien Phu
- Heat, rock, and sand : the Western Desert and the Sinai
- Conclusion.