Air Power: From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II : a History of the People, Ideas and Machines that Transformed...

Name: Air Power: From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II : a History of the People, Ideas and Machines that Transformed...
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ISBN-10: 0670912514
ISBN-13: 9780670912513
Series: Air Power
Pages: 518
Language: English
Published: 2003
Publisher: Viking
Author: Stephen Budiansky

Description

Arguably no single human invention has transformed war more than the aeroplane. The potential of airpower to change the very nature - perhaps even the meaning - of combat was strikingly evident almost from the moment the Wright brothers first flew. showing how, during the course of the 20th century, it transformed warfare. Drawing on combat memoirs, government and industry archives, technical studies and museum collections, this text brings together a complete narrative history of war in the air, with the people, events, ideas and inventions that made it possible.