Strike from the sky
Subtitle: the history of battlefield air attack, 1910-1945
By: Richard P. Hallion
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; Univ of Alabama Pr; Brand: University Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780817356576; 9780817385439
Subjects: Close air support; Air interdiction; History
Notes: Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

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