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- catalog abstract "Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-aircraft units duel in the thundering darkness. Such cinematic scenes, played out with increasing frequency as World War II drew to a close, were more than mere stock for movie melodramas. As Edward Westermann reveals, they point to a key but largely unappreciated aspect of the German war effort that has yet to get its full due. Long the neglected stepchild in studies of World War II air campaigns, German flak or anti-aircraft units have been frequently dismissed by American, British, and German historians (and by veterans of the European air war) as ineffective weapons that wasted valuable materiel and personnel desperately needed elsewhere by the Third Reich. Westermann emphatically disagrees with that view and makes a convincing case for the significant contributions made by the entire range of German anti-aircraft defenses. - Jacket flap.".
- catalog contributor b12287855.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "1. The Great War and Ground-based Air Defenses, 1914-1918 -- 2. A Theory for Air Defense, 1919-1932 -- 3. Converting Theory into Practice, 1933-1938 -- 4. First Lessons in the School of War, 1939-1940 -- 5. Winning the Battle, 1941 -- 6. Raising the Stakes, 1942 -- 7. Bombing around the Clock, 1943 -- 8. Escorts over the Reich, January-May 1944 -- 9. Aerial Gotterdammerung, June 1944-May 1945.".
- catalog description "Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-aircraft units duel in the thundering darkness. Such cinematic scenes, played out with increasing frequency as World War II drew to a close, were more than mere stock for movie melodramas. As Edward Westermann reveals, they point to a key but largely unappreciated aspect of the German war effort that has yet to get its full due. Long the neglected stepchild in studies of World War II air campaigns, German flak or anti-aircraft units have been frequently dismissed by American, British, and German historians (and by veterans of the European air war) as ineffective weapons that wasted valuable materiel and personnel desperately needed elsewhere by the Third Reich. Westermann emphatically disagrees with that view and makes a convincing case for the significant contributions made by the entire range of German anti-aircraft defenses. - Jacket flap.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-386) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 394 p., [17] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Flak.".
- catalog identifier "0700611363 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Flak.".
- catalog isPartOf "Modern war studies".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas,".
- catalog relation "Flak.".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog subject "358/.13/09430904 21".
- catalog subject "Air defenses Germany History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "D757.53 .W47 2001".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Antiaircraft artillery operations.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Great War and Ground-based Air Defenses, 1914-1918 -- 2. A Theory for Air Defense, 1919-1932 -- 3. Converting Theory into Practice, 1933-1938 -- 4. First Lessons in the School of War, 1939-1940 -- 5. Winning the Battle, 1941 -- 6. Raising the Stakes, 1942 -- 7. Bombing around the Clock, 1943 -- 8. Escorts over the Reich, January-May 1944 -- 9. Aerial Gotterdammerung, June 1944-May 1945.".
- catalog title "Flak : German anti-aircraft defenses, 1914-1945 / Edward B. Westermann.".
- catalog type "text".