Strike from the sky the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 /

Main Author: Hallion, Richard.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10527801
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246 1 4 |a Strike from the sky :  |b the history of battlefield air attack, 1910-1945 
260 |a Tuscaloosa :  |b University of Alabama Press,  |c 2010. 
300 |a xx, 323 p. :  |b ill. 
500 |a Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a The First World War. -- The military and the airplane -- Ground attack on the western front, 1917-1918 -- The Palestine Campaign of 1918 -- Great War air support in retrospect -- Small conflicts of the interwar years. -- Emergent ground attack doctrine and technology -- Small wars of the 1920s and 1930s -- Abyssinia, Spain, and war in Asia. -- The Abyssinian War -- The Spanish Civil War -- The Spanish legacy -- War in Asia -- The Second World War. -- The blitzkrieg -- The genesis of Anglo-American air support: the British experience in the Western Desert -- The necessary interlude: doctrine and the American experience in the Pacific, Tunisian, and Italian campaigns -- A deadly efficiency: Anglo-American air support in Western Europe -- Battlefield air support in the East: the case of Kursk -- Epilogue: where we have come, where we are, where we are going. 
650 0 |a Close air support  |x History. 
650 0 |a Air interdiction  |x History. 
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