Авиация / Air Power: A Global History

Название: Air Power: A Global History
Автор(ы): Jeremy Black
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Год: 2016
ISBN: 1442250968
Страниц: 387
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 17 MB

This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world's finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Considering both the theory and praxis of air power, the author begins with hot air balloons, and then highlights the use of zeppelins, piston engine fighters, jet bombers, and finally the so-called Military Revolution of today. While discussing the growth of American and European military aviation, Black, a pioneer in emphasizing the importance of non-Western military history for understanding global developments, also traces the emergence of air power in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.