War and the City : The Urban Context of Conflict and Mass Destruction / Alexander Querengässer, Andrew Demshuk, Linda Parker, Jon Beall, Stefan Laffin, Jamie Horncastle, Simon Davis, Frank Jacob, Hiram Kümper, Jeffrey M Shaw, Sarah K. Danielsson, Sabine Müller, Tim Keogh
A crucial collection of new insights into a topic too often ignored in military history: the close interrelationship between cities and warfare throughout modern history. Scenes of Aleppo's war-torn streets may be shocking to the world's majority urban population, but such destruction woul...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | War (Hi) Stories ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Introduction / Tim Keogh
- Learning the “Grammar” of Urban Operations: The United States Army and Urban Combat in World War II / Jonathan A. Beall
- Saxon Cities in the Great Northern War (1700–1717) / Alexander Querengässer
- Panic in London? Attitudes of Civilians to Air Attacks in 1917/18 and 1944/45 / Linda Parker
- The Death of a City: The Yugoslav Peoples Army Siege of Vukovar, 1991, Refugee Crisis, and Its Aftermath / James Horncastle
- “Government Forces Dare Not Penetrate”: Urban Arab Palestine, No-Go Areas, and the Conflicted Course of British Counter-Insurgency during the Great Rebellion, 1936–1939 / Simon Davis
- Occupied Naples and the Politics of Food in World War II / Stefan Laffin
- Rebuilding after the Reich: Sacred Sites in Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Wrocław, 1945–1949 / Andrew Demshuk
- Back Matter
- Contributors
- Index.