Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq

First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Osprey Publishing,

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Front cover: US Army soldier in Iraq, 2003. (Corbis)

Back cover: American sniper during World War II. (Corbis)

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