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Art, Propaganda and Aerial Warfare in Britain During the Second World War
The War Artists' Advisory Committee, Cultural Propaganda and Romantic Art -- The Battle for Production -- The Battle of Britain -- The Blitz -- The Bombing of Germany.
The Art of Aerial Warfare
The subject of this treatise is war. More specifically, it concerns war conducted in the medium of the air, how it is waged, the effects it produces, and the relationship between this instrument of war and the political oversight it serves. To be clear, though, this treatise is not a checklist for applying airpower in war. It contains no step-by-step instructions for victory. It contains no war stories of daring aviators. It contains no fawning portraits of airpower leaders like Hugh Trenchard, Pete Quesada, or Mike Short. Instead, it mentions the efforts of particular groups of aviators (including the Condor Legion in Spain, the American Volunteer Group in China, and the Royal Air Force dur...
Combat in the Sky
Combat in the Sky vividly portrays the heart-stopping drama of aerial combat in over 85 full-color paintings and illustration paintings by the world's leading aviation artists from North America and the United Kingdom. Artwork from the world's famous artists include Keith Ferris, James Dietz, William Phillips, and Craig Kodera. This artful time capsule offers a glimpse at history-making planes such as the Enola Gay, through the fighters and bombers of the Korean and Vietnam wars, to the high-tech aerial weaponry of Desert Storm and the modern era. While these stunningly captivating works of art serve as the book's core, descriptive captions for each painting and an authoritative and informative text create a cohesive whole.
The Art of Aerial Warfare
The author presents a stimulating paper about conducting aerial warfare, defined as the use of "the destructive instrument of airpower applied against an enemy in time of war." He challenges Airmen to acquire mental agility commensurate with the unprecedented flexibility of their instruments. The author fills a critical gap in aerial warfare literature. Most works focus on the technical or tactical aspects of the profession and medium, but stop short of discussions of the broader nature of war itself. Consideration of war in that larger sense is essential for those who seek to understand and especially apply air and space power in combat. The author beings with the Clausewitzian assumption, ...
Robert Taylor Air Combat Paintings
This volume contains 28 full colour reproductions of some of Robert Taylor's most popular works, together with detailed discussions on the methods and techniques behind each piece by the artist. His comments are supported throughout by colour detail and preliminary pencil sketches.
The Air Combat Paintings of Robert Taylor
Volume One, first published in 1987, has sold more copies than any other aviation art book. Highlights include Return of the Few -- spitfires returning low over the English coast; Dambusters -- raids destroying the dams in Germany's Ruhr industrial heartland; and Last Moral Support -- a Hurricane fighter pilot accompanying a badly damaged comrade to safety.
The Art of Aerial Warfare
Combining nearly 2,500 hours of flying in the A-10 and the F-117 with the theoretical foundation acquired at the Air War College, Marine Command and Staff College, Armed Forces Staff College, and the USAF Weapons School, Col David A. Moore shares with readers both a practical and a relevant outlook of the application of airpower in war. Readers will notice that while the author makes his own experiences the bedrock of this study, he acknowledges the influence of such theorists as of Guilio Douhet, Carl von Clausewitz, Robert Paper, and John Warden. In this analysis of aerial warfare, Colonel Moore argues that while the "issues discussed in the pages, . . . apply with equal measures of relevance to any nation or military, . . . the perspective . . . has remained necessarily American." In addition, his approach places airpower in a political framework instead of viewing it in military terms as most airpower theorists have done.
Colours of War
Outstanding were the large-scale works dealing with aerial warfare of England by Paul Nash, a survivor of the Western Front. Three exceptionally talented war artists were killed; Eric Ravilious, whose subjects ranged from northern convoys and submarines to the Fleet Air Arm; Albert Richards, who painted paratroopers and tank-battles during the advance into Germany; and Thomas Hennell, who began work in trawlers off Iceland and was last seen in Java. The war in Europe, the Middle East and Burma was recorded variously by Edward Bawden, Anthony Gross, Edward Ardizzone and William Coldstream. Leonard Rosoman drew aircraft on the flight-decks of carriers in Japanese waters, Barnett Freedman produced studies of submarine and battleship crews. Some of the most dramatic paintings of the war were those made by Richard Eurich of preparations for D-Day. In almost every case active service had a crucial effect on the subsequent work of war artists.
The Air Combat Paintings of Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor is one of the world's leading aviation artists. Now available for the first time in paperback, these two books offer superb reproductions of Robert Taylor's very best air combat paintings and sketches, as well behind-the-scenes stories of his meetings with some of the finest aviators in history. Providing a rare glimpse into Taylor's working methods, these books will be eagerly sought by all aviation enthusiasts.
