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
by Stephen Budiansky
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670912514
- ISBN 13
- 9780670912513
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
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- Title
- 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
- Author
- Stephen Budiansky
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670912514
- ISBN 13
- 9780670912513
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London England
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Air, Power, from, Kitty, Hawk, to, Gulf, War, II, A, History, of, the, People, Ideas, and, Machines, That, Transformed, War, in, the, Century, of, Fligh, 0670912514, Military, History, and, War, Air, Force, Aces
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