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

• Autore: Hallion Richard <1948-.>
• 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
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8173-8543-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817005403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II