LEADER 05220nam 2200901Ia 450 001 9910454719503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-1414-6 010 $a1-282-08725-8 010 $a9786612087257 010 $a1-4008-2497-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824977 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756301 035 $a(EBL)445415 035 $a(OCoLC)505088752 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237964 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12022537 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237964 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10222017 035 $a(PQKB)10181845 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237965 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218310 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237965 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10221979 035 $a(PQKB)10924438 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445415 035 $a(OCoLC)367654444 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36110 035 $a(DE-B1597)446280 035 $a(OCoLC)979970140 035 $a(OCoLC)984684057 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824977 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445415 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284054 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208725 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756301 100 $a20040729e20042002 ky 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRhetoric and reality in air warfare$b[electronic resource] $ethe evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945 /$fTami Davis Biddle 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, NJ ;$aWoodstock $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in international history and politics 300 $aOriginally published: 2002. 311 $a0-691-08909-4 311 $a0-691-12010-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. The Beginning: Strategic Bombing in the First World War -- $tChapter Two. Britain in the Interwar Years -- $tChapter Three. The United States in the Interwar Years -- $tChapter Four. Rhetoric and Reality, 1939-1942 -- $tChapter Five. The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1943-1945 -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography of Archival Sources -- $tIndex 330 $aA major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. It argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on--and gained validity from--widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing would be an especially effective coercive tool and how they responded when their assumptions were challenged. Biddle analyzes how a particular interpretation of the World War I experience, together with airmen's organizational interests, shaped interwar debates about strategic bombing and preserved conceptions of its potentially revolutionary character. This flawed interpretation as well as a failure to anticipate implementation problems were revealed as World War II commenced. By then, the British and Americans had invested heavily in strategic bombing. They saw little choice but to try to solve the problems in real time and make long-range bombing as effective as possible. Combining narrative with analysis, this book presents the first-ever comparative history of British and American strategic bombing from its origins through 1945. In examining the ideas and rhetoric on which strategic bombing depended, it offers critical insights into the validity and robustness of those ideas--not only as they applied to World War II but as they apply to contemporary warfare. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in international history and politics. 606 $aAir power$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aAir power$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBombing, Aerial$xHistory 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xAerial operations, American 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xAerial operations, British 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, American 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, British 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAir power$xHistory. 615 0$aAir power$xHistory. 615 0$aBombing, Aerial$xHistory. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xAerial operations, American. 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xAerial operations, British. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, American. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xAerial operations, British. 676 $a358.4/2 700 $aBiddle$b Tami Davis$f1959-$01032493 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454719503321 996 $aRhetoric and reality in air warfare$92450393 997 $aUNINA