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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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2002.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 520 | |a 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 assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those in | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Bombardementen. |2 gtt |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Militaire strategie. |2 gtt |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Luchtoorlog. |2 gtt |
| 650 | 7 | |a Strategic bombers. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01134354 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Bombing, Aerial. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00835808 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |x Military |x Aviation. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING |x Military Science. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Bombardiers strategiques |z États-Unis. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Bombardiers strategiques |z Grande-Bretagne. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Bombardement aerien |z États-Unis. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Strategic bombers |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Strategic bombers |z Great Britain. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Bombing, Aerial |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Bombing, Aerial |z Great Britain. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a United States. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Great Britain. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 | |
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