Decisive battles : from Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm / / Jonathon Riley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458810603321
• Autore: Riley J. P (Jonathon P.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , 2010; ©2010
• ISBN: 1-4411-2674-0; 1-282-87663-5; 9786612876639; 1-4411-8792-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Disciplina: 904.7
• Soggetti: Battles; Military history, Modern; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ; 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