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035 $a(OCoLC)25874260
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050 00 $aD600$b.M565 1993
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100 1 $aMorrow, John Howard,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81072733
245 14 $aThe Great War in the air :$bmilitary aviation from 1909 to 1921 /$cJohn H. Morrow, Jr.
260 $aWashington :$bSmithsonian Institution Press,$c[1993], ©1993.
300 $axx, 458 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aSmithsonian history of aviation history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 423-442) and index.
520 $aAlthough World War I was fought and won in the trenches, aviation emerged as the most advanced and innovative technological arm of battle, epitomizing the new total warfare as it meshed the front and the rear, the military and the civilian. The Greai War in the Air is a comprehensive study of the development and significance of airpower during World War I. This history compares military, political, technological, industrial, and cultural aspects of airpower in the greater combatant powers (France, Germany, and England) and the lesser powers (Italy, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the United States). Geared to both general readers and scholars, The Great War in the Air penetrates the heroic veneer of the fighter pilots' exploits, using autobiographical and biographical material to discuss the aviators' lives - the thrills, the risks, the stresses - and their attitudes toward aerial combat.
520 8 $aStarting in 1909 with the beginnings of military aviation and the aviation industry and ending with their catastrophic postwar contraction, the book examines the totality of the air war: its heroism, romantic myths, politics, strategies, and cost in men and materiel. John H. Morrow, Jr., also elaborates on the advancements in aircraft and engine technology and production during airpower's development into a viable and threatening military weapon within a decade of its origins.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xAerial operations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148237
830 0 $aSmithsonian history of aviation series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88505484
852 00 $bglx$hD600$i.M565 1993