Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Kyi, Tanya Lloyd, 1973- author.

Title Extreme battlefields : when war meets the forces of nature / Tanya Lloyd Kyi ; art by Drew Shannon.

Publication Info. Toronto : Annick Press, [2016]
©2016

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 355.02 KYI    Check Shelf
Description 157 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "This non-fiction book for 10-14 year olds explores the ways the environment--the weather, climate, or geography--influences the outcomes of wars. The historical examples examined are: Hannibal in the Alps, the US Navy during Typhoon Cobra (WWII), the Canadian Army in Passchendaele (WWI), the dispute between India and Pakistan over the Siachen Glacier, the Battle of Pichincha (a volcano), General Wei Qing vs the Xiongnu in the Gobi Desert, the US Army in Vietnam, Napoleon's defeat in Russia, and the Battle of Tora Bora"-- Provided by publisher.
Form Issued also in electronic format.
Subject War -- History -- Juvenile literature.
War -- Environmental aspects -- Juvenile literature.
Military meteorology -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Subject Military meteorology. (OCoLC)fst01021318
War. (OCoLC)fst01170328
War -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01170340
Added Author Shannon, Drew, 1988- illustrator.
Other Form: Kyi, Tanya Lloyd, 1973-, author. Extreme battlefields. (CaOONL)20159049113
ISBN 9781554517930 (paperback)
1554517931 (paperback)
9781554517947 (bound)
155451794X (bound)
9781554517954 (html)
9781554517961 (pdf)
-->
Add a Review