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Book Review

Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945. By Tami Davis Biddle. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. x, 406 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-691-08909-4.)
This history of the ideas that shaped British and American strategic bombing through World War II, with brief consideration of their impact on subsequent wars, will become a standard in the study of air power, modern war, and relevant moral and legal issues. It deals with much of the same material as Ronald Schaffer's Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II (1985) and Michael S. Sherry's The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon (1987), though with more complete coverage of the British. Those earlier books need to be mentioned here because they are classics, and Tami Davis Biddle's will be so regarded as well. . . .
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