Rhetoric and reality in air warfare : the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945 / Tami Davis Biddle.

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Biddle, Tami Davis, 1959- [author.]

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TextSeries: Princeton studies in international history and politicsPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 406 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400824977
1400824974
1400814146
9781400814145

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rhetoric and reality in air warfare.DDC classification:

358.4/2 22
358.403 22

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UG705.G7 B54 2002eb

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Contents:

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

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.

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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.

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