DEATH FROM THE HEAVENS

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A History of Strategic Bombing

by Kenneth P. Werrell [4]

ISBN/SKU: 9781591149408
Binding: Hardcover
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Number of Pages: 400
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Date Available: July 2009

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While other books have addressed various aspects of the subject, such as specific aircraft or warfare in specific wars, this book is the first to take a comprehensive look at strategic bombing from its beginnings to the present. Written by a historian, who is also an expert on the technology of bombing and its application, the work covers the theory, hardware, and operations of strategic bombing. While the author, a former U.S. Air Force pilot, focuses primarily on American aircraft and activities, he includes the strategic bombardment efforts of Great Britain, Germany, and Russia, as he places the topic into a larger context and also covers air-to-surface and surface-to-surface missiles. More than a chronological narrative, this study offers a critical analysis and concludes by calling into question the value of strategic bombardment.

Kenneth P. Werrell, a 1960 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew WB-50 weather reconnaissance aircraft into Pacific typhoons and observed the last American above ground nuclear test. He holds a PhD in history from Duke University and taught at Radford University for twenty-six years, with stints at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and Air University. His most recent books are Sabres over MiG Alley [5] and Chasing the Silver Bullet.

~ Praise for Death from the Heavens ~

“This excellent, well-researched study is nicely balanced: six chapters address the prewar period, and the remaining five cover postwar events. The book includes a number of photographs. Death from the Heavens is a major contribution that neither practitioners and nor students of airpower should overlook.”

— Air & Space Power Journal