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A History of Modern Urban Operations

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Editors:
  1. Gregory Fremont-Barnes

    1. Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Camberley, UK

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  • 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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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Nineteenth-Century Precedents

    • Gregory Fremont-Barnes
    Pages 1-32

  3. Armageddon Rehearsed: The Battle of Shanghai, August–November 1937

    • Peter Harmsen
    Pages 33-54

  4. The Battle of Stalingrad, September–November 1942

    • Stephen Walsh
    Pages 55-101

  5. ‘The Rest of the Day Was Perfectly Bloody’: The 51st Highland Division and Town Clearance in Germany, February–March 1945

    • Christopher Mann
    Pages 103-128

  6. ‘Come Ye Back to Mandalay’: 14th Army’s Battle for Mandalay, March 1945

    • Tim Bean
    Pages 129-149

  7. The Battle of Berlin, April–May 1945

    • Ian Rigden
    Pages 151-183

  8. Rocking the Casbah: 10 Parachute Division and the Battle for Algiers—1957

    • Peter McCutcheon
    Pages 185-218

  9. Among the Ashes of Emperors: Operation Hue City—January 1968

    • William A. Taylor
    Pages 219-251

  10. ‘Live Nobly, Die Gloriously’: The Battle for Saigon—Tet 1968

    • Frank Leith Jones
    Pages 253-286

  11. ‘Acting with Restraint and Courtesy, Despite Provocation?’ Army Operations in Belfast During the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’, 1969–2007

    • Aaron Edwards
    Pages 287-319

  12. ‘Its Flames Will Blaze’: The Battle for Fallujah, 7–13 November 2004

    • Duncan Anderson
    Pages 321-344

  13. The Poisoned Chalice: Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond

    • Ian Rigden
    Pages 345-361

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 363-371
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Camberley, UK

    Gregory Fremont-Barnes

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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