The Resource Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945, Tami Davis Biddle, (electronic book)
Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945, Tami Davis Biddle, (electronic book)
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The item Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945, Tami Davis Biddle, (electronic book) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- 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 tho
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 416 p.
- Note
- Originally published: 2002
- Label
- Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945
- Title
- Rhetoric and reality in air warfare
- Title remainder
- the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945
- Statement of responsibility
- Tami Davis Biddle
- Subject
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- 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
- Air power -- Great Britain -- History
- Air power -- United States -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 tho
- Cataloging source
- CaPaEBR
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1959-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Biddle, Tami Davis
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- UG705.G7
- LC item number
- B54 2004eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- standards specifications
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Air power
- Air power
- Bombing, Aerial
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945, Tami Davis Biddle, (electronic book)
- Note
- Originally published: 2002
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ebr10284054
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 416 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Original version note
- Original electronic resource
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945, Tami Davis Biddle, (electronic book)
- Note
- Originally published: 2002
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ebr10284054
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 416 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Original version note
- Original electronic resource
- Reproduction note
- Electronic resource.
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- 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
- Air power -- Great Britain -- History
- Air power -- United States -- History
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- Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central
- Princeton studies in international history and politics
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