Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

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



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Clodfelter Mark Visualizza persona
Titolo: Beneficial bombing : the progressive foundations of American air power, 1917-1945 / / Mark Clodfelter Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Studies in war, society, and the military.