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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010

1 online resource (xx, 323 p.) : ill

ISBN 9780817385439 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780817356576 (pbk. alk. paper)

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989

Includes bibliographical references and index

The First World War. -- The military and the airplane -- Ground attack on the western front, 1917-1918 -- The Palestine Campaign of 1918 -- Great War air support in retrospect -- Small conflicts of the interwar years. -- Emergent ground attack doctrine and technology -- Small wars of the 1920s and 1930s -- Abyssinia, Spain, and war in Asia. -- The Abyssinian War -- The Spanish Civil War -- The Spanish legacy -- War in Asia -- The Second World War. -- The blitzkrieg -- The genesis of Anglo-American air support: the British experience in the Western Desert -- The necessary interlude: doctrine and the American experience in the Pacific, Tunisian, and Italian campaigns -- A deadly efficiency: Anglo-American air support in Western Europe -- Battlefield air support in the East: the case of Kursk -- Epilogue: where we have come, where we are, where we are going.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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