03127nam 2200673 450 991082866680332120230725025441.01-4411-2674-01-282-87663-597866128766391-4411-8792-8(CKB)2670000000055549(EBL)601926(OCoLC)676696370(SSID)ssj0000415535(PQKBManifestationID)12121364(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415535(PQKBWorkID)10430952(PQKB)11123547(MiAaPQ)EBC601926(MiAaPQ)EBC5309654(Au-PeEL)EBL5309654(CaPaEBR)ebr11518621(OCoLC)1027144046(MiAaPQ)EBC3003061(MiAaPQ)EBC6161911(Au-PeEL)EBL3003061(OCoLC)928191734(EXLCZ)99267000000005554920180314h20102010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDecisive battles from Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm /Jonathon RileyLondon, England :Bloomsbury,2010.©20101 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84725-250-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Storm12 The Twenty-first Century: Is Decisive Victory Still Possible?Bibliography; Index of PersonsWhat 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 havBattlesMilitary history, ModernBattles.Military history, Modern.904.715.50bclRiley J. 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ByersToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1988.©19881 online resource (447 p.)Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public AffairsIncludes indexes.0-8020-5722-5 Canadian calendar 1985 ; THE FEDERAL PERSPECTIVE ; Editor's introduction ; Parliament and politics ; PARLIAMENT ; PARTIES AND POLITICS ; Ottawa and the provinces ; FIRST MINISTERS AND THE ECONOMY ; INTERPROVINCIALISM ; PROVINCIAL INVOLVEMENT IN FREE TRADE ; ENERGY ; MEDICARE ; CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES ; LANGUAGE POLICY ; The national economy ; INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS ; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN CANADA ; THE NATIONAL BUDGET ; THE MACDONALD COMMISSION REPORT ; FOREIGN TRADE.External affairs and defence ; CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS ; WESTERN EUROPE ; THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE ; JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC RIM ; CHINA ; THE MIDDLE EAST ; AFRICA ; LATIN AMERICA ; THE CARIBBEAN ; NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS ; THE UNITED NATIONS ; Military and security issues ; EQUIPMENT PROGRAMS ; ALLIANCE RELATIONS ; ARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY ; NATO ; NORAD ; ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT ; THE PROVINCIAL PERSPECTIVES ; Editor's introduction ; ONTARIO ; QUEBEC ; NOVA SCOTIA ; NEW BRUNSWICK ; MANITOBA.BRITISH COLUMBIA ; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ; SASKATCHEWAN ; ALBERTA ; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR ; THE YUKON ; THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES ; Obituaries 1985.The Canadian Annual Review has become an indispensable reference book for those concerned directly or indirectly with Canadian public affairs.Compiled by a corps of Canadian scholars and experts, It offers both a concise, convenient record of the year's events and a responsible appraisal of important developments.Among the events of 1985 analysed in this volume are the activation of the free trade talks with the United States, adding a note of tension to the relationship that in March was serenaded at the Shamrock Summit. In Ontario the forty-year Tory dynasty was ended by an agreement between David Peterson's Liberals and the New Democratic Party. Across the country, relations between the federal and provincial governments improved considerably, in the aftermath of the Mulroney victory in the previous year.POLITICAL SCIENCE / GeneralbisacshCanadaEconomic conditions1945-CanadaForeign relations1945-CanadaPolitics and government1945-Electronic books. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.330.971064Byers R.B., authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1606985Byers R. B.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817854003321Canadian annual review of politics and public affairs3933034UNINA