Air Power

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.

Jeremy Black graduated from Cambridge University with a starred First and did graduate work at Oxford University before teaching at the University of Durham and then at the University of Exeter, where he is professor emeritus of history. He has held visiting chairs at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Texas Christian University, and Stillman College. He is a 2018 Templeton Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Black received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society for Military History in 2008. His recent books include Air Power: A Global History; War and Technology; Naval Power: A History of Warfare and the Sea from 1500 Onwards; and Rethinking World War Two: The Conflict and Its Legacy.

Abbreviations Preface IntroductionThe Start of a New ArmThe First World WarThe 1920sThe 1930sThe Second World WarThe Early Cold War, 1946-1962The Cold War: The Middle Period, 1963-1975The Later Cold War, 1976-1989Air Power and the Revolution in Military Affairs, 1990-2003A Complex Reality, 2004-2015Into the FutureConclusionsNotes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author