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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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