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The rise of American air power : the creation of Armageddon / Michael S. Sherry.
LIBRA UG633 .S457 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sherry, Michael S., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeronautics, Military--United States--History.
- Aeronautics, Military.
- Bombing, Aerial.
- History.
- Air power.
- United States.
- Air power--History.
- Bombing, Aerial--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- This prizewinning book is the first in-depth history of American strategic bombing. Michael S. Sherry explores the growing appeal of air power in America before World War II, the ideas, techniques, personalities, and organizations that guided air attacks during the war, and the devastating effects of American and British "conventional" bombing. He also traces the origins of the dangerous illusion that the bombing of cities would be so horrific that nations would not dare let it occur - an illusion that has sanctioned the growth of nuclear arsenals.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 421-428.
- OCLC:
- 14130372
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