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Rhetoric and reality in air...
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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monografia Rebiun39502973 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun39502973 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 090601s2002 nju ob 001 0 eng d 52254358 961610384 962723792 9781400824977 electronic bk.) 1400824974 electronic bk.) 1400814146 9781400814145 AU@ 000047806967 AU@ 000054168539 22573/cttx9c6 JSTOR N$T eng pn N$T OCLCQ IDEBK OCLCQ JSTOR OCLCF NLGGC P@U YDXCP TUU TNF OCLCQ AGLDB CUS JBG PIFBR OCLCQ IOG WY@ EZ9 MNS RCC VTS OCLCQ TOF LVT TKN STF K6U SNU OCLCO OCLCQ INARC OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ e-uk--- TEC 025000 bisacsh HIS027140 bisacsh HIS027060 bisacsh 358.4/2 22 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E3B4txqmQJ7wBV6mtWTJ3QRJDK 358.403 22 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E3w7XqMHhqqpGB9tq79x7pRk8h Biddle, Tami Davis 1959-) author Rhetoric and reality in air warfare the evolution of British and American ideas about strategic bombing, 1914-1945 Tami Davis Biddle Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2002 Princeton, N.J. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 1 online resource (viii, 406 pages) 1 online resource (viii, 406 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Princeton studies in international history and politics Includes bibliographical references and index 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 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 Bombing, Aerial- Great Britain Bombing, Aerial- United States Strategic bombers- Great Britain Strategic bombers- United States Bombardement aérien- États-Unis Bombardiers stratégiques- Grande-Bretagne Bombardiers stratégiques- États-Unis TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING- Military Science. HISTORY- Military- Aviation. Bombing, Aerial. Strategic bombers. Luchtoorlog. Militaire strategie. Bombardementen. Great Britain. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP United States. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq Print version Biddle, Tami Davis, 1959-. Rhetoric and reality in air warfare. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002 0691089094 9780691089096 (DLC) 2001036865 (OCoLC)47797571 Princeton studies in international history and politics