Air Power in World War I
Reblogged from The I.B.Tauris Blog: Our understanding of the First World War tends to focus on trench warfare, but by looking at the perspectives of British pilots the limitations of […]
Category Archives: War Studies
The RAF Staff College and Learning from the French – Sacrebleu!
The RAF Staff College stood up at RAF Andover in November 1921 where it was co-located with its parent headquarters, No. 7 Group. Its formation marked an important step in […]
Acquisitions
A couple of important books have comes through for review recently… Harry Dickinson, Wisdom and War: The Royal College Greenwich, 1873-1998 (Franham: Ashgate, 2013) An important history of Greenwich and […]
Sir Sydney Camm Memorial Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society
The 21st Century Changing Character of Air Power Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton GCB ADC LLD(Hon) BSc FRAeS CCMI RAF Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Air Force Sir […]
A Military Transformed? New Book from Helion and Company
In November 2013, my first book will be published. Well to be honest I am one of the co-editors with two friends, Stuart Mitchell and Michael LoCicero though I do […]
Acquisition
Damian P. O’Connor, Between Peace and War: British Defence and the Royal United Services Institute, 1831-2010 (London: Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, 2011) The Royal United […]
Acquisitions – Churchill and..
I recently added two books to library that both deal with Churchill’s relationship with the military. Military memoirs of Churchill, and accounts of his relationships his military advisers is nothing […]
Bombing the People: Giulio Douhet and the Foundations of Air Power Strategy, 1884–1939
I suspect this may well be the key air power text to come out this year. It is, Bombing the People: Giulio Douhet and the Foundations of Air Power Strategy, […]
Call for Papers – 1944: Seventy Years on
Call for Papers: 1944: Seventy Years On An International Conference 14-17 April 2014 Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Global War Studies and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are pleased to announce […]
Rare ‘Bomber’ Harris film uncovered
[Cross posted at The Second World War Military Operations Research Group] The BBC announced today that a rare interview with Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris had […]
