Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• List of tables
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Preparing for war
• (i) Aircraft and sea power
• (ii) Armies and air power
• (iii) Strategic bombing
• (iv) Aerial defence
• (v) Air power and strategy
• 2. The European Air War September 1939-41
• (i) From Poland to the Blitz
• (ii) The RAF, Bombing and the War at Sea
• (iii) The struggle for the Mediterranean
• (iv) Air Power and War 1939-41
• 3. The European Air War 1941-45
• (i) Air war on the Eastern Front
• (ii) The United States and the War in Europe
• (iii) Air Power in the Mediterranean and Atlantic
• (iv) From Casablanca to Victory
• (v) The Collapse of the Luftwaffe
• (vi) Air power and the War in Europe
• 4. The Air War in the Far East
• (i) The victory of Japanese Air Power
• (ii) The Allied defensive-offensive
• (iii) Bombing and collapse of Japan
• 5. The strategic Bombing offensives
• (i) Preparation and purpose
• (ii) Problems of execution, technology and intelligence
• (iii) The strategic argument
• (iv) The impact of bombing
• 6. Leadership, organisation and training
• (i) Leadership in the Air War
• (ii) Organisation in the armed forces
• (iii) The Air force officers corps
• (iv) Recruitment and training
• (v) Morale and the military tradition
• 7. The Aircraft Economics
• (i) Production and strategy
• (ii) The organisation of aircraft production
• (iii) Industry, bureaucracy and administration
• (iv) The mobilisation of industry
• (v) The efficiency of aircraft production
• (vi) Labour and raw materials
• (vii) The quality of aircraft
• (viii) Finance, capitalism and the war efford
• 8. Science, Research and intelligence
• (i) Science, and the air war
• (ii) Research, developments and the quality of weapons
• (iii) Intelligence and the air war
• (iv) Scientific intelligence
• 9 Conclusions