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Autore |
Hallion Richard <1948-.> |
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Strike from the sky : the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / / Richard P. Hallion |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Close air support - History |
Air interdiction - History |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Chronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in war, to the end of World War II. |
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