San Antonio College Library

For hundreds of years before the first flight at Kittyhawk on December 17, 1903, man had sought to gain the ultimate view from the sky. There were as many ideas about how the ability to fly could be of use as there were failed machines that attempted to accomplish it. This quest for air power, defined as the ability to conduct military, commercial, or humanitarian operations from the air, has had far-reaching implications not only for combat technology,...

"This epic history draws on combat memoirs, letters, and diaries; archival records and museum collections; and eyewitness accounts by the men who fought - and the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and concepts - to weave a vivid and dramatic account of the airplane's revolutionary transformation of modern warfare."--Jacket.

"Sky Wars is a history of military air power, from the early airships through two World Wars and various colonial and regional conflicts to the use of air power today, including the recent conflicts involving Iraq. Radar, missiles, carriers, 'stealth' aircraft, helicopters, ordnance and numerous other crucial features of war in the air feature in it. In addition, as well as revealing the ways in which developments in air power, military prowess and...