Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945
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Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945
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The work Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945
- 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
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- CaPaEBR
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- UG705.G7
- LC item number
- B54 2004eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- standards specifications
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adult
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