Striking the Hornets' Nest: Naval Aviation and the Origins of Strategic Bombing in World War I

by Geoffrey L. Rossano and Thomas Wildenberg

Book Overview

Striking the Hornets' Nest provides the first extensive analysis of the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy's most innovative aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world's first dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written about the Navy's aviation activities in World War I and even less on the NBG. Standard studies of strategic bombing tend to focus on developments in the Royal Air Force or the U.S. Army Air Service...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612513905
• ISBN13: 9781612513904
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"