Targeting the Third Reich
Subtitle: air intelligence and the Allied bombing campaigns
By: Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.
Series: Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780700616824
Subjects: United States. -- Army Air Forces -- History -- World War, 1939-1945; Great Britain. -- Royal Air Force -- History -- World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence; Military intelligence -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Aerial reconnaissance -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Bombing, Aerial -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe; Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Air intelligence in its historical context; title: The Great War and the beginnings of air intelligence; title: Lessons learned, unlearned, and forgotten : analyses of aerial bombardment in World War I and their consequences; title: Retrenchment and advance : air intelligence in the early interwar period, 1919-1933; title: The pace quickens : air intelligence in the late interwar period, 1933-1941; title: Air intelligence grows to adolescence : British developments, 1939-1941; title: The shift to night area bombing : air intelligence, doctrinal evolution, and operational change, 1941-1942; title: Air intelligence reaches maturity, January 1943-January 1944; title: Transportation campaigns : bombing, air intelligence, and the defeat of German armies in France, 1944; title: The attack on oil, April-December 1944 : air intelligence and the acceleration of German defeat in the field; title: Endgame, November 1944-May 1945 : air intelligence, the final destruction of oil and transportation assets, and the defeat of the Wehrmacht; title: Retrospective.