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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Why air forces fail</title>
    <subTitle>the anatomy of defeat</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Higham, Robin D. S.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Harris, Stephen John.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Lexington, Ky</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>University Press of Kentucky</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2006</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2006</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>382 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Poland's military aviation, September 1939 / Michael Alfred Peszke -- L'Armée de l'air, 1933-1940 / Anthony Christopher Cain -- The Arab air forces / Robin Higham -- Defeat of the German and Austro-Hungarian air forces in the Great War, 1909-1918 / John H. Morrow Jr. -- Downfall of the Regia aeronautica, 1933-1943 / Brian R. Sullivan -- The Imperial Japanese Air Forces / Osamu Tagaya -- Defeat of the Luftwaffe, 1935-1945 / James S. Corum -- The Argentine Air Force versus Britain in the Falkland Islands, 1982 / René De La Pedraja -- From disaster to recovery : Russia's air forces in the two world wars / David R. Jones -- The United States in the Pacific / Mark Parillo -- Defeats of the Royal Air Force : Norway, France, Greece, and Malaya, 1940-1942 / Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Air forces</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Aeronautics, Military</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Military history, Modern</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">UG625 .W62</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0813123747 (hardcover : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780813123745</identifier>
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