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The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon

Michael S. Sherry

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The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon

This book is the first in-depth history of American strategic bombing. Michael S. Sherry explores the growing appeal of air power in America before World War II, the ideas, techniques, personalities, and organizations that guided air attacks during the war, and the devastating effects of American and British "conventional" bombing. He also traces the origins of the dangerous illusion that the bombing of cities would be so horrific that nations would not dare let it occur - an illusion that has sanctioned the growth of nuclear arsenals.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
1987
ISBN-13
9780300036008
Genre
History
Topics
Strategic bombingWorld War II air powerNuclear arms development

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