TY - BOOK AU - Riley,Jonathon TI - Decisive Battles: From Yorktown to Operation Desert Storm SN - 9781441187925 AV - D295.R55 2010 U1 - 904.7 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc KW - Battles KW - Military history, Modern KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5309654 ER -