What We're Reading: Airpower History I
By Mark Jacobsen, SAASS
/ Published October 18, 2021
Maxwell AFB, AL --
SAASS Class XXXI recently completed SAASS 627: Airpower in the Age of Total War. Dr. Rich Muller served as Course Director, with Dr. Rob Hutchinson, Dr. James Tucci, and Dr. Thomas Hughes supporting as instructors.
This year's version of 627 included the following books:
- Lee Kennett, The First Air War
- William Mitchell, Winged Defense
- Haun, Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II
- Jennifer Van Vleck, Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy
- “The Air War in Europe, 1939-1945,” in Olsen, A History of Air Warfare
- James Corum, The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War
- Stephen Bungay, The Most Dangerous Enemy
- Robert C. Ehlers, The Mediterranean Air War
- Tami Davis Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare
- Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- “The Air War in the Pacific, 1941-1945” in Olsen, A History of Air Warfare,
- Craig Symonds, The Battle of Midway
- Thomas E. Griffith Jr., MacArthur’s Airman: General George C. Kenney and the War in the Southwest Pacific
- John Plating, The Hump
- Phillips Payson O’Brien, How the War was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II
- Antony Beevor, Crete: The Battle and the Resistance
The full syllabus is available here.