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Black Jeremy <1955-> |
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Air power : a global history / / Jeremy Black |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (388 p.) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Start of a New Arm; 3 The First World War; 4 The 1920s; 5 The 1930s; 6 The Second World War; 7 The Early Cold War, 1946-62; 8 The Cold War: The Middle Period, 1963-75; 9 The Later Cold War, 1976-89; 10 Air Power and the Revolution in Military Affairs, 1990-2003; 11 A Complex Reality, 2004-15; 12 Into the Future; 13 Conclusions; Notes; Selected Further Reading; Index |
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This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world's finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. |
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