Format:
1 online resource (392 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780817385439
Content:
Chronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in war, to the end of World War II.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The First World War -- 1. The Military and the Airplane -- The Birth of Military Aviation, 1903-1914 -- The Nature of Conflict in the Great War -- The Air War and Aviation Technology -- 2. Ground Attack on the Western Front, 1917-1918 -- From the Somme to Cambrai -- The 1918 Offensive -- St. Mihiel -- 3. The Palestine Campaign of 1918 -- Setting the Stage -- Wadi el Far'a -- 4. Great War Air Support in Retrospect -- Aircraft and Operations -- Identification and Communications -- Aircraft and Tanks -- Part Two: Small Conflicts of the Interwar Years -- 5. Emergent Ground-Attack Doctrine and Technology -- Attack Aircraft Development in the Interwar Years -- Ground-Attack Aviation and Military Thought -- 6. Small Wars of the 1920s and 1930s -- The Russo-Polish War of 1920 -- The British "Air Control" Experience -- The Rif War in Morocco -- The Sandino War in Nicaragua -- Part Three: Abyssinia, Spain, and War in Asia -- 7. The Abyssinian War -- Background to War -- The Air Campaign -- 8. The Spanish Civil War -- Myths, Realities, and the Nature of the Air War -- The Beginnings of Spanish Air Support -- The Battle of Guadalajara -- The Maturation of Spanish Air Support: Bilbao, Brunete, Teruel, and the Ebro -- 9. The Spanish Legacy -- Lessons Read and Misread -- France -- Germany -- The Soviet Union -- 10. War in Asia -- The Sino-Japanese War -- The Nomonhan Incident -- Part Four: The Second World War -- 11. The Blitzkrieg -- The Invasion of Poland -- The Battle for France -- The Allied Riposte -- The Lessons of Blitzkrieg -- 12. The Genesis of Anglo-American Air Support: The British Experience in the Western Desert -- From Peace to War -- Western Desert Beginnings -- The Crusader Experience -- From Crusader to El Alamein.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817356576
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780817356576
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=835664
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