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Product Description: Resistance is a product of will times means, Carl von Clausewitz postulated in his treatise On War. In his 1993 Bombs, Cities, and Civilians, which the American Historical Review judged âmust reading for anyone interested in the subject of air warfare,â Conrad C...read more
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9780700622092 | Univ Pr of Kansas, April 5, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Resistance is a product of will times means, Carl von Clausewitz postulated in his treatise On War.
Product Description: Aerial bombardment remains important to military strategy, but the norms governing bombing and the harm it imposes on civilians have evolved. The past century has seen everything from deliberate attacks against rebellious villagers by Italian and British colonial forces in the Middle East to scrupulous efforts to avoid "collateral damage" in the counterinsurgency and antiterrorist wars of today...read more
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9780801452802 | Cornell Univ Pr, August 19, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Aerial bombardment remains important to military strategy, but the norms governing bombing and the harm it imposes on civilians have evolved.
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9780801479342 | Cornell Univ Pr, August 19, 2014, cover price $24.95
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9780833074553 | Rand Corp, October 1, 2012, cover price $19.95
Product Description: A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writersA Penguin ClassicOn the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with U...read more
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9780143105916 | 2 edition (Penguin Classics, July 8, 2009), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writersA Penguin ClassicOn the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with U.
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9780833030719 | Rand Corp, November 1, 2001, cover price $15.00
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 assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment. These assumptions were derived from the social and political context of the day and were maintained largely through cognitive error and bias. Tami Davis Biddle explains how air theorists, and those influenced by them, came to believe that strategic bombing would be an especially effective coercive tool and how they responded when their assumptions were challenged. Biddle analyzes how a particular interpretation of the World War I experience, together with airmen's organizational interests, shaped interwar debates about strategic bombing and preserved conceptions of its potentially revolutionary character. This flawed interpretation as well as a failure to anticipate implementation problems were revealed as World War II commenced. By then, the British and Americans had invested heavily in strategic bombing. They saw little choice but to try to solve the problems in real time and make long-range bombing as effective as possible. Combining narrative with analysis, this book presents the first-ever comparative history of British and American strategic bombing from its origins through 1945. In examining the ideas and rhetoric on which strategic bombing depended, it offers critical insights into the validity and robustness of those ideas--not only as they applied to World War II but as they apply to contemporary warfare.
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9780691089096 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: A major revision of our understanding of long-range bombing, this book examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented.
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9780691120102 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 30, 2004, cover price $46.00
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9781400824977 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 15, 2001, cover price $31.95
Product Description: In the wake of World War II, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and President Harry S. Truman established the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, to determine exactly how effectively strategic air power had been applied in the European theater and in the Pacific...read more
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9780814731352 | New York Univ Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In the wake of World War II, Secretary of War Henry L.
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9780764307232 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, March 1, 1999, cover price $29.95
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9780700605743 | Univ Pr of Kansas, April 1, 1993, cover price $29.95
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9780700611034 | Univ Pr of Kansas, December 1, 1993, cover price $17.95
Product Description: A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America?s great twentieth-century writersOn the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath?and at the height of the American war effort?John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with U...read more
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9781557783110, titled "Bombs Away!: The Story of a Bomber Team" | Reprint edition (Paragon House, October 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America?
Product Description: Early in June 1984 some thirty-five of the retired four-star generals of the United States Air Force gathered in Washington, D.C., for the annual Senior Statesmen Conference. Each year since the early 1960s the Air Force has invited its retired four-star generals to Washington...read more
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9780912799568 | United States Government Printing, June 1, 1988, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Early in June 1984 some thirty-five of the retired four-star generals of the United States Air Force gathered in Washington, D.
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9780891261018 | Military Affairs, June 1, 1981, cover price $16.95
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