Strike from the sky the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 /
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The First World War.
- The military and the airplane
- Ground attack on the western front, 1917-1918
- The Palestine Campaign of 1918
- Great War air support in retrospect
- Small conflicts of the interwar years.
- Emergent ground attack doctrine and technology
- Small wars of the 1920s and 1930s
- Abyssinia, Spain, and war in Asia.
- The Abyssinian War
- The Spanish Civil War
- The Spanish legacy
- War in Asia
- The Second World War.
- The blitzkrieg
- The genesis of Anglo-American air support: the British experience in the Western Desert
- The necessary interlude: doctrine and the American experience in the Pacific, Tunisian, and Italian campaigns
- A deadly efficiency: Anglo-American air support in Western Europe
- Battlefield air support in the East: the case of Kursk
- Epilogue: where we have come, where we are, where we are going.