STRIKE FROM THE SKY THE HISTORY OF BATTLEFIELD AIR ATTACK 1911-1945
Written by Richard P. Hallion
Published by Airlife
in 1989
ISBN: 185310020X
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- AVIATION
- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
STRIKE FROM THE SKY THE HISTORY OF BATTLEFIELD AIR ATTACK 1911-1945
Written by Richard P. Hallion.
Stock no. 2110785
1989.
Hardback.
Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.
Smithsonian History of Aviation Series. Gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 185310020X.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART ONE: THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- 1. The Military and the Airplane
- 2. Ground Attack on the Western Front, 1917-1918
- 3. The Palestine Campaign of 1918
- 4. Great War Air Support in Retrospect
- PART TWO: SMALL CONFLICTS OF THE INTERWAR YEARS
- 5. Emergent Ground-Attack Doctrine and Technology
- 6. Small Wars of the 1920s and 1930s
- PART THREE: ABYSSINIA, SPAIN AND WAR IN ASIA
- 7. The Abyssinian War
- 8. The Spanish Civil War
- 9. The Spanish Legacy
- 10. War in Asia
- PART FOUR: THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- 11. The Blitzkrieg
- 12. The Genesis of Anglo-American Air Support: The British Experience in the Western Desert
- 13. The Necessary Interlude: Doctrine and the American Experience in the Pacific, Tunisian and Italian Campaigns
- 14. A Deadly Efficiency: Anglo-American Air Support in Western Europe
- 15. Battlefield Air Support in the East: The Case of Kursk
- EPILOGUE: WHERE WE HAVE COME, WHERE WE ARE, WHERE WE ARE GOING
- Glossary
- Source Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index