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Crossroads of modern warfare
- Title
- Crossroads of modern warfare / Drew Middleton.
- Author
- Middleton, Drew, 1913-1990.
- Publication
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1983.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | D431 .M5 1983 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vii, 320 pages : maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- Discusses the importance of sixteen famous battles including the Marne, Jutland, Cambrai, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, Midway, Stalingrad, El alamein, Normandy, Chongchon, Dien Bien Phu, Tet, and the Yom Kipper War.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [303]-308.
- Contents
- The guns of the Rising Sun : Tsushima -- Germant loses, no one wins : the Marne -- The bloody twighlight of the dreadnoughts : Jutland -- A tractor, machine guns, and the rebirth of mobility in battle : Cambrai -- The storm that swept Europe into oblivion : The Battle of France -- So much owed by so many to so few : the Battle of Britain -- The descent of the Rising Sun : Midway -- Stalin leads, Mother Russia triumphs : Stalingrad -- The last victory of the British Empire : El Alamein -- The unknown battle : Imphal-Kohima -- "Once more into the breah, dear friends" : Normandy -- MacArthur and the Chinese puzzle : Chongchon -- The siege without hope : Dien Bien Phu -- Military victory and political defeat : Tet -- "If you can see it, you can hit it. If you can hit it, you can destroy it" : The Battle of the Bridges, Hanoi -- Victory on the knife edge of defeat : The Yom Kippur War.
- ISBN
- 0385149379
- 9780385149372
- LCCN
- 79007873
- OCLC
- ocm08493618
- 8493618
- SCSB-63081
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library