Urban Warfare in the Twenty-First Century. Anthony King

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      Copyright © Anthony King 2021

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      First published in 2021 by Polity Press

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      ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4367-0

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      Names: King, Anthony, 1967- author.

      Title: Urban warfare in the twenty-first century / Anthony King.

      Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “An outstanding interdisciplinary introduction to urban warfare in the contemporary world”-- Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020053371 (print) | LCCN 2020053372 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509543656 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509543663 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509543670 (epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Urban warfare--History--21st century. | Metropolitan areas--Strategic aspects. | Siege warfare--History.

      Classification: LCC U167.5.S7 K56 2021 (print) | LCC U167.5.S7 (ebook) | DDC 355.4/26--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020053371 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020053372

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      Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. The author and publisher would like to thank the following for permission to use copyright material: Figure 3.1 from Castle, The Journal of the Royal Anglian Regiment; Map 1.1 and Map 5.3 from the Institute for the Study of War; Map 2.3 from The Map Archive; Map 3.1 from Geografski vestnik; Map 11.1 from Army University Press; and Map 2.2 and Map 8.1 from Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael R. Gordon, copyright © 2006, 2007 by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

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