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The Flatpack Bombers. The Royal Navy and the Zeppelin Menace

Door Ian Gardiner

Categorie	WO I
Boeknummer	#224182
Titel	The Flatpack Bombers. The Royal Navy and the Zeppelin Menace
Auteur	Gardiner, Ian
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Pen & Sowrd, Barnsley
Jaar van uitgave	2014
ISBN10	1473822807
ISBN13	9781473822801
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Our vision of aviation in the First World War is dominated by images of gallant fighter pilots dueling with each other high over the Western Front. But it was the threat of the Zeppelin which spurred the British government into creating the Royal Flying Corps, and it was this 'menace', which no aircraft could match in the air at the beginning of the war, which led Winston Churchill and the Royal Navy to set about bombing these airships on the ground. Thus in 1914, the Royal Naval Air Service, with their IKEA-style flat pack airplanes, pioneered strategic bombing. Moreover, through its efforts to extend its striking range in order to destroy Zeppelins in their home bases, the Royal Navy developed the first true aircraft carriers. This book is the story of those largely forgotten very earl... (Lees verder)y bombing raids. It explains the military and historical background to the first British interest in military and naval aviation, and why it was that the Navy pursued long distance bombing, while the Army concentrated on reconnaissance. Every bomber raid, and every aircraft carrier strike operation since, owes its genesis to those early naval flyers, and there are ghosts from 1914 which haunt us still today.
Pagina's	163
Conditie	Nieuw
Prijs	€ 9,00

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