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Features case studies from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries and from a range of major wars
Examines the tactical lessons that emerge from a close study of urban operations
Highlights the three-dimensional nature of urban warfare, including restricted fields of fire and view, the advantages conferred by concealed positions and abundant cover for the defender, and the heavy casualties that invariably result
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Camberley, UK
Gregory Fremont-Barnes
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A History of Modern Urban Operations
Editors: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27088-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27087-2Published: 02 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27090-2Published: 06 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27088-9Published: 21 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 371
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Modern History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Military, Military and Defence Studies