Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-SEP-05
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan
Article Excerpt
Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945. By Tami Davis Biddle. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004 [original edition, 2002]. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. viii, 406. $19.95 Paperback ISBN: 0-691-12010-2
In this much anticipated study, Biddle examines the ideas that shaped the strategic bombing campaigns of the U.S. and UK in World War II. She argues, "The history of strategic bombing in the twentieth century is a history of the tension between imagined possibilities and technical realities." The strength of this study comes not from this...
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