Beneficial bombing : the progressive foundations of American air power, 1917-1945 / / Mark Clodfelter

• Autore: Clodfelter Mark
• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Disciplina: 358.4/14097309041
• Soggetto topico: Bombing, Aerial - United States - History - 20th century; Air power - United States - History - 20th century; Precision bombing - United States - History - 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 - Aerial operations; World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations; Progressivism (United States politics) - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Genesis in the Great War -- Progressive prophecy -- From prophecy to plan -- Breaching fortress Europe, 1942-43 -- Bludgeoning with bombs : Germany, 1944-45 -- Fire from the sky : Japan, 1944-45 -- Progressive legacies.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement-to reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. In Beneficial Bombing Mark Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I's trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beneficial bombing
• ISBN: 1-283-05109-5; 9786613051097; 0-8032-3449-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785688003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in war, society, and the military.