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...Theodore Ropp The Sky on Fire: The First Battle of Britain 1917-1918 and the Birth of the Royal Air Force . By Fredette Major Raymond H. , U.S.A.F. Foreword by Baldwin Hanson W. . Afterword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Slessor John . New York : Holt, Rinehart...

...Lyman B. Burbank Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 PROBLEMS OF NATO DIPLOMACY: FISH AND AN AIR BASE IN ICELAND Lyman B. Burbank ON MARCH 28, 1956, Iceland s parliament voted for the with­ drawal of all NATO forces from the country. It was several months thereafter before...

...J. Fred Rippy Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 THE BUENOS AIRES PEACE CONFERENCE OF 1936 J. FRED RIPPY I THE government at Washington seems to be following a two­ fold motto: kee'p the Americas out of war and keep war out of the Americas. Inevitably arguments will arise...

..., sea, and air of the new geography of knowledge capitalism. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Andrew Ross Away from Home: The Case of University Employees Overseas These are not the best times for Americans to be offering advice...

...Alioscia Castronovo Starting from ethnographic research on popular economies carried out in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, I aim to contribute to reflection on the common as a mode of production, analyzing the popular community frameworks, practices of self-management of work...

... of social security extensions (which provided important benefits to housewives and other informally employed women) and in the processes of compulsory urbanization in the peripheries of Buenos Aires. This article seeks to account for the fabric of this political process and its innovative forms of weaving...

... book. The subject matter is not particularly startling or obscure, but it is assembled conveniently and analyzed clearly. It includes, among other things, a reminder of what air power in its broadest sense is; a consideration of the relative air power of England, Russia, and the United States...

... democracia o más populismo? Los Consejos Comunales y las disputas sobre la hegemonía democrática (More Democracy or More Populism? The Communal Councils and Disputes over Democratic Hegemony) . Buenos Aires : Teseo . Azzellini Darío . 2007 . “La revolución bolivariana: ‘O inventamos o erramos...

...-American History Congress at Buenos Aires, Haring made clear the similarities between Argentina and the United States. Temperate countries, unable to develop plantation econo- mies with slave labor, were forced to develop “farm colonies” on a freehold basis. In these societies...

...Henry Cord Meyer; Stephen V. Gallup Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 France Perceives the Zeppelins, 1924 1937 Henry Cord Meyer and Stephen V. Gallup With the defeat of Germany sealed by the Treaty of Versailles, France moved after 1919 to become the greatest military air power...

... as actual), or skills, it has the making of air power. It was the lack of Allied understanding of this fact, Cooper insists, that permitted the rebirth of German air power in the 1930 s. But another necessary element of air power is control of the airspace or, more specifically, a nation s exclusive right...

... and into combat, his war poems are a sustained and impassioned attempt to understand the nature of war, especially air war, and the experience of being a soldier during World War II. Since World War II was what we might call a justifiable or at least necessary or inevitable war, unlike Vietnam, Jarrell...

... an account of his mis­ sion as Commanding General of the wartime Army Air Forces. He chooses to tell this story in the cursive style of a personal memoir. The result makes good reading. It is recognizably Arnold; and Arnold is famous for his ability to tell a story. But it leaves the reader with the feeling...

... ghost-written soap operas. For the record, we must remember that he was acting (though not titular) Commander in Chief of the Allied Land Forces, as Ramsay was for the naval units and LeighMallory for air, during the entire Normandy campaign and should there­ fore be given credit for that great victory...

... of the Japanese lines but perhaps the chapter on the mountains of Luzon best illustrates the style, method, and conclusions. . . . American teamwork on the water, in the air, and on the ground was ex­ cellent. . . . There was a time when the rivalries between the services had a certain usefulness; I am sure...

... and composition of armies, the role of air forces and navies in war, tendencies toward mechanization, and the acute dependence of all elements of military life upon the industrial capacity of the nation. This last was to me of especial importance because of my intense belief that large-scale motorization...

.... With a mere eight volumes still to go, Captain Morison has kept up with the Air Force s seven-volume co-operative work and is well ahead of the ninety-odd-volume Army series. Though much of the spadework was done by the members of his staff, the completed narrative is Professor Morison s own, clear...

... of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Feist Wolfgang Schnieders Jürgen Dorer Viktor Haas Anne . 2005 . “ Re-Inventing Air Heating: Convenience and Comfort within the Frame of the Passive House Concept .” Energy...

... ages and literatures painted, with the rainbow colors of romance, the vision splendid of man with wings coursing through the air. Three thou­ sand years before the birth of Christ, according to a legend inscribed on clay tablets recently uncovered at the site of the ancient city of Nineveh, man first...

... from our aircraft carriers had completed the last afternoon strike of the two-day attack on Formosa in October, 1944. The fighter patrols were still in the air but would soon land aboard their parent carriers. It was Friday the thirteenth. Marine First Lieutenant Robert E. Dawson, of Edmond, Oklahoma...