Modern warfare often spills over into cities and rural areas populated by civilians.Sometimes the population has been evacuated and other times civilians are stillliving in cities during conflicts. Urban combat is very different from open fieldcombat on tactical and operational levels. The fierce urban battles in Aleppo andMosul, Hue (1968), Algiers (1956-1957), Beirut (1975-1990), Sarajevo (1992-1996),Falluja (2004), Syria, Donbas, etc have a common effect: they suppose a systematicdestruction of the cities and show an environment that repeats itself. All these urbanwars have so many aspects in common that it is often difficult to even identify whichconflict a scene may belong to if we do not look closely at the details of the buildingsor the equipment, as we will see in this book of spectacular 1:35 scale dioramas.