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Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945 /

A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous as...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Biddle, Tami Davis, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
Colección:Princeton studies in international history and politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: The Beginning: Strategic Bombing in the First World War; Chapter Two: Britain in the Interwar Years; Chapter Three: The United States in the Interwar Years; Chapter Four: Rhetoric and Reality, 1939-1942; Chapter Five: The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1943-1945; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography of Archival Sources; Index. 
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