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UNINA9910267858903321 |
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Bosetto, Marinella |
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Chimica del legno / Marinella Bosetto, Irene Lozzi |
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UNINA9910458810603321 |
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Autore |
Riley J. P (Jonathon P.) |
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Decisive battles : from Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm / / Jonathon Riley |
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London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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1-4411-2674-0 |
1-282-87663-5 |
9786612876639 |
1-4411-8792-8 |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Battles |
Military history, Modern |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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: Hitler's Last Gamble; 10 Dien Bien Phu, 1954: Wind of Change; 11 Kuwait, 1990-91: Desert Storm |
12 The Twenty-first Century: Is Decisive Victory Still Possible?Bibliography; Index of Persons |
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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 history. The battles at Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo in 1815 concluded more than twenty years of war with |
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Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and instituted alliances that dominated Europe until 1860. The Ardennes in 1944 was decisive because Hitler threw away the last army he had which could hav |
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