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020 $a080185850X (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)38557251
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050 00 $aUA990$b.B35 1998
082 00 $a355.4/7$221
245 00 $aBattling the elements :$bweather and terrain in the conduct of war /$cHarold A. Winters [and others].
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c1998.
300 $aix, 317 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia"--P. facing t.p.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tStorms, Fair Weather, and Chance: Kamikazes, Dunkirk, and Normandy --$g2.$tToo Much and Too Wet: The Civil War Mud March and Flanders' Fields --$g3.$tClouds and Fog: The Bulge and Khe Sanh --$g4.$tInvading Another Climate as Seasons Change: Napoleon and Hitler in Russia --$g5.$tForests and Jungles: The Wilderness and the Ia Drang Valley --$g6.$tTerrains and Corridors: The American Civil War's Eastern Theater and World War I Verdun --$g7.$tTroubled Waters: River Crossings at Arnhem and Remagen --$g8.$tGlaciers Shape the Land: Alpine Fighting and the Road to Moscow --$g9.$tPeninsulas and Sea Coasts: Anzio and Inchon --$g10.$tIsland Battles: Tarawa and Iwo Jima --$g11.$tHot, Wet, and Sick: New Guinea and Dien Bien Phu --$g12.$tHeat, Rock, and Sand: The Western Desert and the Sinai.
520 $aThroughout history, from Hannibal's crossing of the Alps to Rommel's desert warfare, military operations have succeeded or failed on the ability of commanders to incorporate environmental conditions into their tactics. In Battling the Elements, geographer Harold A. Winters and former U.S. Army officers Gerald E. Galloway Jr., William J. Reynolds, and David W.
520 8 $aRhyne examine the connections between major battles in world history and their geographic components, revealing what role factors such as weather, climate, terrain, soil, and vegetation have played in combat.
520 8 $aEach chapter of Battling the Elements offers a detailed and engaging explanation of a specific environmental factor and then looks at several battles that highlight its effects on military operations. Battling the Elements details dozens of battles to illustrate the complex, diverse, and often capricious effect of physical geography on war without oversimplifying this relationship or implying that environmental factors predetermine the outcome of a battle.
650 0 $aMilitary geography$vCase studies.
650 0 $aMilitary geography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085201
700 1 $aWinters, Harold A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98016098
710 2 $aCenter for American Places.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95082191
852 00 $bglx$hUA990$i.B35 1998