Air Power

Air Power

Jeremy Black

66,11 €
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Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2016
Materia
Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9781442250963

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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.

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