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Avia is a book-length epic poem that takes for its subject matter the war in the air in World War Two. The verse narratives are stories told by combat pilots from all the major battle theatres, but are related to Charles Lindbergh in a dream as he returns to the United States following his 1927 transatlantic flight. Voices from his future and from our past.
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• 1. Giulio Douhet and the Origins of Air Power Theory
• 2. Trenchard and "Morale Bombing": The evolution of Royal Air Force doctrine before World War II
• 3. John C. Slessor and the Genesis of Air Interdiction
• 4. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Britain's Fleet Air Arm before World War II
• 5. The Impact of Tecnhology and Design Choice on the Development of US Fighter Aircraft
• 6. Clipping the Bomber's Wings: The Geneva Disarmament Conference and the Royal Air Force, 1932-34
• 7. Air Power and Joint Operations During World War II
• 8. The B-29 Air Campaign against Japan
• 9. Air Strategy: Targeting for effect
• 10. Precision Aerospace Power, Discrimination and the Future of War
• 11. Gradual Escalation: A return to the future?
• 12. The Versailles Treaty and Iraq: The road to Munich
• 13. Aerospace Power and the Post-Kosovo World
• 14. Strategic Implications for the Aerospace Nation.
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These essays cover a wide range of subjects and tell the story of air power's evolution over the past century. The author discusses the golden age of air theory before World War II, examining the ideas of British, American and continental airmen. In the great test of World War II, he covers some of the key roles played by air power in both Europe and the Pacific. Reviewing the Cold War era, Meilinger relates how airmen had to grapple not only with nuclear war planning, but also the requirement to wage limited wars in Korea and Vietnam. After the fall of the Soviet Union airmen once again had to rethink the role of air power, while also waging decisive air campaigns in Iraq and the Balkans. The final essays deal with the opportunities presented by what is now termed aerospace power, as well as some of the challenges of the new millennium.
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According to the author all aircrews, tacticians and those who direct them have to realise the limitations of air power during conflicts. For years opinion has differed as to whether the aircraft has altered war strategies or merely the tactics of war. This volume explores the limits of airpower.
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The pilot who faces the unknown, who by chance flies higher or faster than his aircraft allows, or hurtles into combat against overwhelmingly better armed opponents, or is lost over enemy territory in a crippled and burning plane, is every aviation reader's hero. In this book of sixteen such true tales, that master of aviation history Alfred Price recalls events from both World Wars and on through peacetime to Vietnam, the Falklands and Kuwait. Events include carrier-hopping Spitfires to Malta in the grim days of 1942; a dogfight between a Ju86R and a Spitfire at 43, ooo feet, both pilots interviewed by the author; low altitude Phantom reconnaissance to Hanoi, 1972; high speed air action between Sea Harriers and Argentine jets, 1 May 1982 - and much more. These are fast-moving, always exciting episodes, written by one of the best-known aviation authors and certain to please aviation enthusiasts and readers of adventure non-fiction.
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