Air Power
The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II
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Word Count
129,500 words, Guess
Page Count
518 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7641246M
- ISBN-139780670032853
- ISBN-100670032859
- OCLC Control Number52312554
- OCLC Control Numberunset0000unse_b1a9
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003053530
- Goodreads328184
- LibraryThing184850
Classifications
- LCCUG625 .B83 2004
Description
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.
Description
"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.
First Sentence
It was an age of miracles.
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