Battle Of The Cities
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Battle Of The Cities
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Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2023-07-30
Battle Of The Cities written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-30 with History categories.
The Stalingrad battle and the Leningrad siege were just two of the brutal, devastating urban conflicts that marked the awful struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The cities were strategic fixed points in the sweeping advances and retreats of the opposing armies across eastern Europe. Yet no one has concentrated on these city battles before or has sought to tell the story of the campaigns through the fighting that took place in and around them. That is Anthony Tucker-Jones’s purpose in this concise and vivid history of the urban war on the Eastern Front. Early in the war, during the Wehrmacht’s crushing offensives of 1941 and 1942, the Red Army was forced out of a series of key cities. Moscow was threatened, Leningrad surrounded. Then, after the climactic battle at Stalingrad, the Red Army with increasing confidence, speed and power drove the Germans from the Soviet and East European capitals they had occupied. The final urban battles were fought in Germany's cities, culminating in Berlin. As he traces the course of the fighting for each city, Anthony Tucker-Jones looks at the local circumstances, the opposing forces, the strategic significance and the tactics employed. He focuses not only on the destruction and cruelty of such warfare, but on the heroism displayed on both sides and on the fate of the civilians who found themselves on the front line.
Cities At War
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Author : Mary Kaldor
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Cities At War written by Mary Kaldor and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Social Science categories.
Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven to match its settings. Yet the analysis of failed states, civil war, and state building rarely considers the city, rather than the country, as the terrain of battle. In Cities at War, Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen assemble an international team of scholars to examine cities as sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity. Reflecting Kaldor’s expertise on security cultures and Sassen’s perspective on cities and their geographies, they develop new insight into how cities and their residents encounter instability and conflict, as well as the ways in which urban forms provide possibilities for countering violence. Through a series of case studies of cities including Baghdad, Bogotá, Ciudad Juarez, Kabul, and Karachi, the book reveals the unequal distribution of insecurity as well as how urban capabilities might offer resistance and hope. Through analyses of how contemporary forms of identity, inequality, and segregation interact with the built environment, Cities at War explains why and how political violence has become increasingly urbanized. It also points toward the capacity of the city to shape a different kind of urban subjectivity that can serve as a foundation for a more peaceful and equitable future.
War And The City
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Author : Gregory John Ashworth
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1991
War And The City written by Gregory John Ashworth and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Architecture categories.
Cities have evolved from small urban systems designed to withstand attack from without. The demands of the modern city have shifted the focus to the dangers of internal violence. War and the City analyses the role of cities in war and the effects of war on cities.
Urban Warfare In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Anthony King
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-07-07
Urban Warfare In The Twenty First Century written by Anthony King and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-07 with Political Science categories.
Warfare has migrated into cities. From Mosul to Mumbai, Aleppo to Marawi, the major military battles of the twenty-first century have taken place in densely populated urban areas. Why has this happened? What are the defining characteristics of urban warfare today? What are its military and political implications? Leading sociologist Anthony King answers these critical questions through close analysis of recent urban battles and their historical antecedents. Exploring the changing typography and evolving tactics of the urban battlescape, he shows that although not all methods used in urban warfare are new, operations in cities today have become highly distinctive. Urban warfare has coalesced into gruelling micro-sieges, which extend from street level – and below – to the airspace high above the city, as combatants fight for individual buildings, streets and districts. At the same time, digitalized social media and information networks communicate these battles to global audiences across an urban archipelago, with these spectators often becoming active participants in the fight. A timely reminder of the costs and the horror of war and violence in cities, this book offers an invaluable interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the new millennium for students of international security, urban studies and military science, as well as military professionals.
Stalingrad
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Author : Alexey Isaev
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2020-02-19
Stalingrad written by Alexey Isaev and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-19 with History categories.
“A fresh look at what is perhaps the most famous battle of the Russo-German War from the Soviet perspective.” —The NYMAS Review Much has been written about the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet victory that turned the tide of the Second World War. Yet our knowledge and understanding continues to evolve, and this engrossing account by Alexey Isaev brings together previously unpublished Russian archive material—strategic directives and orders, after-action reports, and official records of all kinds—with the vivid recollections of soldiers who were there, on the front lines, reconstructing what happened in extraordinary new detail. The evidence leads him to question common assumptions about the conduct of the battle—about the use of tanks and mechanized forces, for instance, and the combat capability and tenacity of the defeated and surrounded German Sixth Army in the last weeks before it surrendered. His gripping narrative carries the reader through the course of the entire battle from the first small-scale encounters on the approaches to Stalingrad in July 1942, through the intense continuous fighting through the city, to the encirclement, the beating back of the relieving force, and the capitulation of the Sixth Army in February 1943. Military historian Alexey Isaev’s latest book, with maps and illustrations included, is an important contribution to the literature on this decisive battle. It offers a thought-provoking revised view of events for readers already familiar with the story, and a fascinating introduction for those coming to it for the first time.
Cities Into Battlefields
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Author : Stefan Goebel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Cities Into Battlefields written by Stefan Goebel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Cities and towns categories.
This book explores the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises worldwide in the First and Second World Wars. It brings together cultural and urban historians and scholars of anthropology, education, geography, and urban planning, and examines how the emergence of 'total' warfare blurred the boundaries between home and front and transformed cities into battlefields. The central contention of this volume, that total war in the twentieth century has a significant but often overlooked metropolitan dimension, is addressed, filling a gap in the currently available literature.
Battle Of Britain
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Author : Paul Corfield
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2017-06-24
Battle Of Britain written by Paul Corfield and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-24 with History categories.
This is another look at one of the battles during WWII where Hitler thought he could invade and conquer during his reign of terror on the world. He decided to try and knock out the Royal Air Force of Britain. He was not expecting the resistance that the British air force and navy were to give him in his quest for annihilation of Great Britain.
Breaking The Mold
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Author : Kendall Gott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-24
Breaking The Mold written by Kendall Gott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-24 with categories.
Few lessons are as prevalent in military history as is the adage that tanks don't perform well in cities. The notion of deliberately committing tanks to urban combat is anathema to most. In Breaking the Mold: Tanks in the Cities, Mr. Ken Gott disproves that notion with a timely series of five case studies from World War II to the present war in Iraq.
War And The City
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Author : Tim Keogh
language : en
Publisher: Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh
Release Date : 2019-12
War And The City written by Tim Keogh and has been published by Verlag Ferdinand Schoningh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12 with Cities and towns categories.
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 would be familiar to urban dwellers as early as the third millennium BCE. While war is often narrated as a clash of empires, nation-states, and 'civilizations', cities have been the strategic targets of military campaigns, to be conquered, destroyed, or occupied. Cities have likewise been shaped by war, whether transformed for the purposes of military production, reconstructed after bombardment, or renewed as sites for remembering the costs of war. This conference volume draws on the latest research in military and urban history to understand the critical intersection between war and cities.
Upon Stilted Cities
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Author : Michael Kilman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10-17
Upon Stilted Cities written by Michael Kilman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-17 with categories.
The Ruins of Langeles are up for grabs, and two walking cities stand on the brink of war. Saud has arrived, Runner 17 is near death, the women of Nowhere are missing, and Roderick's plot to destroy Manhatsten is underway. Never before has Manhatsten faced such danger. Enemies lurk both inside and outside the city, and there is an assassin in Daniels's ranks.It will take all the power of the sisters of the Order of the Eye to protect the city. But Alexa Turon has seen the future, and she knows what's coming, she knows if they don't do something, the city will fall. Can she and her new allies change the future or is too late to stop the inevitable?