Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945

Name: Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945
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ISBN: 9780691120102

ISBN-10: 0691120102

ISBN-13: 9780691120102

Edition: 2002

Authors: Tami Biddle

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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 influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing would be an especially effective coercive tool…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/19/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Beginning: Strategic Bombing in the First World War



Britain in the Interwar Years



The United States in the Interwar Years



Rhetoric and Reality, 1939-1942



The Combined Bomber Offensive, 1943-1945


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography of Archival Sources


Index