Air Power
The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II
by Stephen Budiansky
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"This epic history draws on combat memoirs, letters, and diaries; archival records and museum collections; and eyewitness accounts by the men who fought - and the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and concepts - to weave a vivid and dramatic account of the airplane's revolutionary transformation of modern warfare."--BOOK JACKET.
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Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq
March 29, 2005, Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin Books
in English
014303474X 9780143034742
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Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II
April 12, 2004, Viking Adult
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0670032859 9780670032853
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Air power: from Kitty hawk to Gulf War II : a history of the people, ideas and machines that transformed war in the century of flight
2003, Viking
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0670912514 9780670912513
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No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs, letters, diaries, archival records, museum collections, and eyewitness accounts by the men who fought—and the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and concepts—acclaimed author Stephen Budiansky weaves a vivid and dramatic account of the airplane’s revolutionary transformation of modern warfare.
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