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The TITLE of this book asks an interesting and important question. The TEXT makes no attempt whatsoever to answer it. Instead, this is a book about the internal politics of the U.S. Army Air Force as it strove to become an independent service with status equal to the Army and Navy. It mostly dwells on the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, the motives of the people who ordered it, and the struggles to present various points of view within it. Occasionally, the author mentions what various people in the survey concluded, with hardly any attempt to explain why they came to the conclusions they did, and no consideration as to whether the survey's authors were correct. Neither does Col. Gentile present any conclusions of his own on this subject. I can only conclude that the effectiveness of strategic bombing doesn't really interest him, and that the title was applied solely to deceive potential customers.
For those who ARE interested in the question the title asks, try David MacIsaac's "Strategic Bombing in World War Two: The Story of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey", a really good book.
- File Size: 843 KB
- Print Length: 286 pages
- Publisher: NYU Press (December 1, 2000)
- Publication Date: December 1, 2000
- Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004DTT4K6
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,534,673 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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