LEADER 03134nam 2200673 450 001 9910458810603321 005 20211005104843.0 010 $a1-4411-2674-0 010 $a1-282-87663-5 010 $a9786612876639 010 $a1-4411-8792-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000055549 035 $a(EBL)601926 035 $a(OCoLC)676696370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000415535 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12121364 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415535 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10430952 035 $a(PQKB)11123547 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC601926 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5309654 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5309654 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11518621 035 $a(OCoLC)1027144046 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003061 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6161911 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3003061 035 $a(OCoLC)928191734 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000055549 100 $a20180314h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDecisive battles $efrom Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm /$fJonathon Riley 210 1$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84725-250-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a12 The Twenty-first Century: Is Decisive Victory Still Possible?Bibliography; Index of Persons 330 $aWhat 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 606 $aBattles 606 $aMilitary history, Modern 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBattles. 615 0$aMilitary history, Modern. 676 $a904.7 700 $aRiley$b J. P$g(Jonathon P.),$0962851 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458810603321 996 $aDecisive battles$92455131 997 $aUNINA