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Military Air Power in Europe Preparing for War: A Study of European Nations’ Air Forces Leading Up to 1939

By Norman Ridley

Book information

Publisher
Air World
Year
2022
ISBN
9781399066891, 9781399066853, 9781399066877
Google Books ID
-VCjEAAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2593051 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2025-03-10 19:19:50

Description

The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare. Battle fronts had become immobilized in the grip of machine-guns and heavy artillery, leading to slaughter on an unprecedented scale. The end of the war saw exhausted governments extricating themselves from the carnage, but some leaders were concerned that, sooner or later, another major war would follow. As France’s Marshal Foch put it, the Treaty of Versailles was only a ‘twenty-year truce’. The overriding concern was to find ways in future of avoiding the kind of static battle fronts that had consumed so many in such futile efforts.

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