Overview
- Features case studies from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries and from a range of major wars
- Examines the tactical lessons that emerge from a close study of urban operations
- Highlights the three-dimensional nature of urban warfare, including restricted fields of fire and view, the advantages conferred by concealed positions and abundant cover for the defender, and the heavy casualties that invariably result
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This book investigates the complexities of modern urban operations—a particularly difficult and costly method of fighting, and one that is on the rise. Contributors examine the lessons that emerge from a range of historical case studies, from nineteenth-century precedents to the Battle of Shanghai; Stalingrad, German town clearance, Mandalay, and Berlin during World War II; and from the Battle of Algiers to the Battle for Fallujah in 2004. Each case study illuminates the features that differentiate urban operations from fighting in open areas, and the factors that contribute to success and failure. The volume concludes with reflections on the key challenges of urban warfare in the twenty-first century and beyond.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gregory Fremont-Barnes is Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK. He has written or edited over twenty-five books on subjects covering warfare from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A History of Modern Urban Operations
Editors: Gregory Fremont-Barnes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27088-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27087-2Published: 02 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27090-2Published: 06 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27088-9Published: 21 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 371
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Modern History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Military, Military and Defence Studies