TY - BOOK AU - Hallion,Richard ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Strike from the sky: the history of battlefield air attack, 1911-1945 AV - UG700 .H35 2010eb U1 - 358.4/14209041 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Close air support KW - History KW - Air interdiction KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10527801 ER -