Gates, David.
Contents: Pt. 1. History. War in and from the skies, 1903-1943 -- The aerospace era, 1943-2003 -- pt. 2. Issues. Aerospace power's evident nature and its impact on war and peace -- Bases ashore and afloat -- Missile-defence dilemmas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reaktion 2003
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Summary: Unknown to the public and cloaked in the utmost secrecy, the United States flew missions against the Communist bloc almost continuously during the Cold War in a desperate effort to collect intelligence and find targets for all-out nuclear war. The only hint of the relentless, clandestine operations came when one of the planes was shot down. Many of the air force and navy flyers were killed on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 BURMurray, Williamson.
Summary: From the Publisher : Almost as soon as airplanes were invented, military strategists realized their potential: only 10 years after the first flight, planes had become weapons of war. In the First World War planes served as scouts, fighters, and bombers--and by World War II all the advanced states had large military air forces dedicated to bombardment. There was even a belief that land forces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358.4 MURSummary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019