Publication: Air Power History Publication Date: 22-DEC-03 Format: Online - approximately 881 words Delivery: Immediate Online Access Author: Christie, Carl A.
Article Excerpt Edited by Sebastian Cox and Peter Gray. London and Portland Ore.: Frank Cass, 2002. Maps. Tables. Diagrams. Notes. Index. Pp. xix, 362. $26.50/ $18.50 paperback. ISBN: 0-7146-5291-1 (cloth), 0-7146-8257-8 (paper)
Anyone who reads this review should enjoy reading this collection of papers from a conference at the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon in 2001. This gathering of scholars and practitioners from many countries must have been worth the price of admission. The book's individual chapters are generally well written, well documented, very informative, and more uniform and homogenous than in most such compilations. The editors, Sebastian Cox, head of the Air Historical Branch of the British Ministry of Defence, and Peter Gray, the RAF's Director of Defence Studies, offer readers a scholarly consideration of many of the key developments in the history of air...
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