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

by Geoffrey L. Rossano and Thomas Wildenberg

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"