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Air Power by Stephen Budiansky

Air Power

The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq

The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq

By Stephen Budiansky

By Stephen Budiansky

By Stephen Budiansky

By Stephen Budiansky

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    About Air Power

    No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs, letters, diaries, archival records, museum collections, and eyewitness accounts by the men who fought—and the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and concepts—acclaimed author Stephen Budiansky weaves a vivid and dramatic account of the airplane’s revolutionary transformation of modern warfare.

    On the web: http://www.budiansky.com/

    About Air Power

    No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs, letters, diaries, archival records, museum collections, and eyewitness accounts by the men who fought—and the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and concepts—acclaimed author Stephen Budiansky weaves a vivid and dramatic account of the airplane’s revolutionary transformation of modern warfare.

    On the web: http://www.budiansky.com/

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    About Stephen Budiansky

    STEPHEN BUDIANSKY is the author of seventeen books about military history, intelligence and espionage, science, the natural world, and other subjects. His most recent books are Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union and Mad Music: Charles Ives, the… More about Stephen Budiansky

    About Stephen Budiansky

    STEPHEN BUDIANSKY is the author of seventeen books about military history, intelligence and espionage, science, the natural world, and other subjects. His most recent books are Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union and Mad Music: Charles Ives, the… More about Stephen Budiansky

    Product Details

    Category: Military History | Technology | Reference

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 29, 2005 | 528 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143034742

    Category: Military History | Technology | Reference

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 29, 2005 | 528 Pages | ISBN 9781101118405

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    Praise

    “A truly fascinating and insightful perspective on the history of air power.”  —Norman R. Augustine, former chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation

    “A splendid job.” —The Wall Street Journal

    Table Of Contents

    Author’s note

    Part 1: Kitty Hawk to Saint-Mihiel, 1900-1918

    1. Visions 3
    2. Bogeymen 32
    3. Realities 55
    4. Grand plans 90

    Part 2: Versailles to Madrid, 1919-1939

    5. Lessons learned and mislearned 125
    6. The quest for precision 153
    7. The fight for the fighter 184

    Part 3: Warsaw to Nagasaki, 1939-1945

    8 Finest hour 219
    9 Air versus sea 255
    10 The temporary triumph of tactical aviation 281
    11 The allied bomber offensive 308

    Part 4: Omaha to Baghdad, 1946-2003

    12 Strategic air command 345
    13 Hard knocks 376
    14 Precision, at last 406

    Notes 443
    Bibliography 485
    Index

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