Billy MitchellLynne Rienner Publishers, 2002 - 305 pagine "In a highly publicized trial, Mitchell was court-martialed and found guilty, ostensibly for openly attacking the Navy and the War Department over the fatal crash of the airship Shenandoah, but primarily for making public his warnings about U.S. weaknesses in the air. Although the air attack on Pearl Harbor made Mitchell look to some like a prophet martyred for his integrity, Cooke revises that portrait to reveal a character fatally flawed by consuming ambition and a man who was a victim only of circumstances of his own creation."--BOOK JACKET. |
Sommario
Introduction | 1 |
Young Willie | 7 |
From the Philippines to Alaska | 27 |
The Great War 1917 | 43 |
The Western Front | 61 |
Victory 1918 | 79 |
Return to Washington | 105 |
The Ostfriesland | 123 |
Damned Rot | 187 |
Resignation and Crusade | 221 |
Politics and Decline | 239 |
The Last Flight | 255 |
Mitchell Revived | 275 |
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About the Book 305 | |
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