02321nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10527801 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100519r20101989alua sb 001 0 eng d 2010021166 9780817356576 (pbk. alk. paper) 9780817385439 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)785776416 UG700 .H35 2010eb 358.4/14209041 22 Hallion, Richard. Strike from the sky [electronic resource] : the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 / Richard P. Hallion. Strike from the sky : the history of battlefield air attack, 1910-1945 Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010. xx, 323 p. : ill. Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Close air support History. Air interdiction History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10527801 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 145384 145384