RHETORIC AND REALITY IN AIR WARFARE : THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN IDEAS ABOUT STRATEGIC BOMBING, 1914-1945 /
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 as...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
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2004
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