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

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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.
Temas:
1914-1945
Air power > Great Britain > History.
Air power > United States > History.
Bombing, Aerial > History.
World War, 1914-1918 > Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1914-1918 > Aerial operations, British.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, British.
Forces aériennes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Forces aériennes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Bombardement aérien > Histoire.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Opérations aériennes britanniques.
Air power
Bombing, Aerial
Military operations, Aerial > American
Military operations, Aerial > British
Great Britain
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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