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The influence of airpower upon history : statesmanship, diplomacy, and foreign policy since 1903 /

From early zeppelins, to the Luftwaffe and the Enola Gay, to the unmanned aerial vehicles of the twenty-first century, air power has long been regarded as an invaluable instrument of war. However, nations have employed aircraft for many other purposes as well; they provide security and surveillance,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Higham, Robin, 1925-2015, Parillo, Mark P., 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • States and strategic airpower : continuity and change, 1906-1939 / John H. Morrow Jr.
  • Politics and French aviators : a prism on the international European crises of the 1930s / Patrick Facon
  • Hitler, airpower, and statecraft / Richard R. Muller
  • The emperor and the despot : statesmen, patronage, and the strategic bomber in Imperial and Soviet Russia, 1909-1959 / David R. Jones
  • Statesmen and airpower in Latin America, 1945-2010 / René de la Pedraja
  • Presidential statesmen and U.S. airpower : personalities and perceptions / Jeffery S. Underwood
  • Gunboat diplomacy : presidential use of aircraft carriers and their embarked air wings / Douglas V. Smith and Kent S. Coleman
  • Chinese statesmen and the use of airpower / Andrew S. Erickson
  • A century of airpower / Mark Parillo.