Strike from the sky : the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / / Richard P. Hallion.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Hallion, Richard.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xx, 323 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Table of Contents

• The First World War.
• The military and the airplane
• Ground attack on the western front, 1917-1918
• The Palestine Campaign of 1918
• Great War air support in retrospect
• Small conflicts of the interwar years.
• Emergent ground attack doctrine and technology
• Small wars of the 1920s and 1930s
• Abyssinia, Spain, and war in Asia.
• The Abyssinian War
• The Spanish Civil War
• The Spanish legacy
• War in Asia
• The Second World War.
• The blitzkrieg
• The genesis of Anglo-American air support: the British experience in the Western Desert
• The necessary interlude: doctrine and the American experience in the Pacific, Tunisian, and Italian campaigns
• A deadly efficiency: Anglo-American air support in Western Europe
• Battlefield air support in the East: the case of Kursk
• Epilogue: where we have come, where we are, where we are going.