Beneficial Bombing :: the Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917-1945.

The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement--...

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1. Verfasser: Clodfelter, Mark
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in War, Society, & the Military.
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Zusammenfassung:The Progressive Era, marked by a desire for economic, political, and social reform, ended for most Americans with the ugly reality and devastation of World War I. Yet for Army Air Service officers, the carnage and waste witnessed on the western front only served to spark a new progressive movement--to reform war by relying on destructive technology as the instrument of change. In Beneficial Bombing Mark Clodfelter describes how American airmen, horrified by World War I's trench warfare, turned to the progressive ideas of efficiency and economy in an effort to reform war itself, with the heavy b.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (390 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780803234499
080323449X

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