Air Power : The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq

Stephen Budiansky
Penguin Publishing Group
 9780143034742
0-14-303474-X

No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplanenot even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences.

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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 foughtand the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and conceptsacclaimed author Stephen Budiansky weaves a vivid and dramatic account of the airplanes revolutionary transformation of modern warfare.On the web: http://www.budiansky.com/