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Lion Killers: Billy Mitchell and the Birth of Strategic Bombing

Author William Schwarzer
Publisher Aerial Perspective Publishing
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ISBN / ASIN0974860204
ISBN-139780974860206
Sales Rank3,718,274
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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A story about the birth of airpower and the people who fought for its existence. A staunch advocate of airpower, Brigadier General William Mitchell's ideas were controversial in a time when the general and the admiral were deemed the sole proprietors of modern warfare. His historic bombing trials and personal journey to show the full military potential of airpower would lead him into a national controversy and a phyrric outcome.