Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare : : The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 / / Tami Davis Biddle.
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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Biddle, Tami Davis, author. Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare : The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 / Tami Davis Biddle. Core Textbook Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2002 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ; 113 Frontmatter -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing would be an especially effective coercive tool and how they responded when their assumptions were challenged. Biddle analyzes how a particular interpretation of the World War I experience, together with airmen's organizational interests, shaped interwar debates about strategic bombing and preserved conceptions of its potentially revolutionary character. This flawed interpretation as well as a failure to anticipate implementation problems were revealed as World War II commenced. By then, the British and Americans had invested heavily in strategic bombing. They saw little choice but to try to solve the problems in real time and make long-range bombing as effective as possible. Combining narrative with analysis, this book presents the first-ever comparative history of British and American strategic bombing from its origins through 1945. In examining the ideas and rhetoric on which strategic bombing depended, it offers critical insights into the validity and robustness of those ideas--not only as they applied to World War II but as they apply to contemporary warfare. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) 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. HISTORY / Military / Strategy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691120102 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400824977 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400824977.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- 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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