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Strike from the sky [[electronic resource] ] : the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / / Richard P. Hallion



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Autore: Hallion Richard Visualizza persona
Titolo: Strike from the sky [[electronic resource] ] : the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / / Richard P. Hallion Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
Disciplina: 358.4/14209041
Soggetto topico: Close air support - History
Air interdiction - History
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Chronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in war, to the end of World War II.
Titolo autorizzato: Strike from the sky  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8543-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464246603321
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