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The sky on fire : the First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918 /
The Sky on Fire: The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918 (Smithsonian History of Aviation).
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Smithsonian history of aviation series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Hanson W. Baldwin; 1. 'A Single German Aeroplane'; A Vision of Modern Warfare; 2. The Coming of the 'Wong-Wongs'; 3. Air War and Baby-Killing; 4. The England Squadron; 5. Gotha in the Sea; London by Day; 6. A Grand but Deadly Show; 7· 'Send Over ... One or Two Squadrons'; 8. 'The Hammer is in Our Hands'; 9· The Raid Heard Round the World; 10. The Fortress of London; 11. Sunday in Southend; 12. Defeat of the Day Raiders; 13. 'The Magna Carta of British Air Power'; ... And by Night; 14. Trials and Experiments; 15. Giants to the West.
- 16. The First Blitz17. 'We Will Give it All Back to Them'; 18. 'All that Flies and Creeps'; 19. Winter Twilight of the Gotha Bombers; 20. The Nights of the Giants; 21. Khaki and Blue: An Air Force is Born; End of a Round; 22. The Biggest Raid-and the Last; 23. Retreat to Oblivion; 24. The First Bomber Command; A Fearsome Legacy; 25. Only a Beginning; 26. The Sky on Fire; An Afterword by Marshal of the Royal Air force Sir John Slessor, G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C.; Tables; British Air Defence in 1918; Home Defence Squadrons, L.D.A., November 1918; British Air Raid Casualties, 1915-18.