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Canadian Airmen and the First World War
The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force
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S.F. Wise
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English
Published/Copyright:
1980
About this book
Illustrated with specially prepared colour and sketch maps and over 200 photographs, many of them published here for the first time, this book should prove invaluable to the military historian and of wide appeal to the aviation enthusiast and general reader alike.
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Wise S.F. :
S.F. Wise is Director of the Institute of Canadian Studies at Carleton University and Chairman of the Ontario Heritage Foundation.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Maps and Illustrations
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Preface
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
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1. Military Aviation before the First World War
3 - Part I: Canadian Training and Air Policy
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Introduction
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2. Recruiting and Training in Canada, 1914-16
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3. Sir Sam Hughes, the Aviation Lobby, and Canadian Air Policy, 1914-16
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4. RFC Expansion and the Canadian Air Training Organization
76 - Part II: The Admiralty and the Air
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5. Origins of Naval Airpower
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6. 1916: Diffusion and Misdirection
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7. Alternative Roles, 1917-18
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8. Aviation and the Victory over the Submarine
194 - Part III: Strategic Airpower
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9. The Air Defence of Britain
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10. The RNAS and the Birth of a Bombing Strategy
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11. The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany
284 - Part IV: Airpower in the Land Battle
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Introduction
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12. Experiments on the Western Front, 1914-15
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13. The Birth of Airpower, 1916
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14. Stalemate on the Western Front, 1917
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15. Italy and Macedonia, 1917-18
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16. The Ludendorff Offensives, 1918
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17. Amiens
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18. Perfecting the Air Weapon
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19. Towards the Establishment of a Canadian Air Force
579 - Appendices
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A. Canadian Airmen and the British Intervention in Russia, 1918-20
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B. Canadians in Other Theatres, 1915-18
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C. Statistical Analysis of Canadians in the British Flying Services
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Notes
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Index
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December 15, 1980
eBook ISBN:
9781487572099
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918
eBook ISBN:
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Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
