History of Modern Urban Operations

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.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Nineteenth-Century Precedents.- 3. Armageddon Rehearsed: The Battle of Shanghai, August–November 1937.- 4. The Battle of Stalingrad, September–November 1942.-  5. ‘The rest of the day was perfectly bloody’: The 51st Highland Division and Town Clearance in Germany, February–March 1945.- 6. ‘Come Ye Back to Mandalay’: 14th Army’s Battle for Mandalay, March 1945.- 7. The Battle of Berlin, April–May 1945.- 8. Rocking the Casbah: 10 Parachute Division and the Battle for Algiers –1957.- 9. Among the Ashes of Emperors: Operation Hue City – January 1968.- 10. ‘Live Nobly, Die Gloriously’: The Battle for Saigon – Tet 1968.- 11. ‘Acting with restraint and courtesy, despite provocation?’ Army Operations in Belfast during the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’, 1969–97.- 12. ‘Its Flames Will Blaze’: The Battle for Fallujah, 7–13 November 2004.- 13. The Poisoned Chalice: Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond.