Rhetoric and reality in air warfare: the evolution of british and american ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945
Auteur :
Biddle, Tami
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691120102
Date de publication :
19 sept. 2004
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
567 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. This book 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.