Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945 / Tami Davis Biddle.
2002
UG705.G7 B54 2002eb
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Title
Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945 / Tami Davis Biddle.
ISBN
9781400824977 (electronic bk.)
1400824974 (electronic bk.)
1400814146
9781400814145
1400824974 (electronic bk.)
1400814146
9781400814145
Imprint
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 406 pages)
Call Number
UG705.G7 B54 2002eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)367654444
Summary
A 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 in
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: The Beginning: Strategic Bombing in the First World War; Chapter Two: Britain in the Interwar Years; Chapter Three: The United States in the Interwar Years; Chapter Four: Rhetoric and Reality, 1939-1942; Chapter Five: The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1943-1945; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography of Archival Sources; Index
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Princeton studies in international history and politics.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Biddle, Tami Davis, 1959- Rhetoric and reality in air warfare. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002
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