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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785216503321
• 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.)
• Classificazione: 15.50
• Disciplina: 904.7
• Soggetti: Battles; Military history, Modern
• 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