Air Campaign #: Norway 1940

The Luftwaffe's Scandinavian Blitzkrieg

Air Campaign #: Norway 1940
Graham Turner, James S Corum
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h248 x 184mm - 96pg
22 Jul 2021 UK
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9781472847454
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The German invasion of Norway was a pivotal moment in modern warfare, the first joint campaign that featured air power as an equal element of all operations. It was, in fact, the superior use of their air force that gave the Germans the decisive margin of victory and ensured the failure of the Allied counter-offensive in central Norway in April and May 1940. All aspects of air power were employed in Norway, from long-range bombing and reconnaissance to air transport, with the Luftwaffe' s ability to transport large numbers of troops and supply ground forces over great distances being particularly important. Norway was the first campaign in history in which key targets were seized by airborne forces, and the first in which air superiority was able to overcome the overwhelming naval superiority of an enemy. Researched from primary sources, this engaging history by air power expert Dr James Corum skilfully draws out where and why air power made the difference in Norway, and analyses the campaign' s influence on the coming months and years of World War II.

"Big Week" 1944: Operation Argument and the breaking of the Jagdwaffe
Air Campaign: Sink the Tirpitz 1942-44: The RAF and Fleet Air Arm Duel with Germany's Mighty Battleship
Air Campaign: Six-Day War 1967: Operation Focus and the 12 hours that changed the Middle East
Arctic Convoys 1942: The Luftwaffe cuts Russia's lifeline
Battle of Berlin 1943-44: Bomber Harris' Gamble to End the War
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-41: RAF Coastal Command's Hardest Fight Against the U-boats
Battle of the Atlantic 1942-45: The climax of World War II's greatest naval campaign
D-Day 1944: The deadly failure of Allied heavy bombing on June 6
Desert Storm 1991: The most shattering air campaign in history
Gothic Line 1944-45: The USAAF Starves out the German Army
Guadalcanal 1942-43: Japan's Bid to Knock Out Henderson Field and the Cactus Air Force
Ho Chi Minh Trail 1964-73: Steel Tiger, Barrel Roll, and the secret air wars in Vietnam and Laos
Holland 1940: The Luftwaffe's first setback in the West
Italian Blitz 1940-43, The: Bomber Command's War Against Mussolini's Cities, Docks and Factories
Japan 1944-45: LeMay's B-29 Strategic Bombing Campaign
Kamikaze Campaign 1944-45, The: Imperial Japan's last throw of the dice
Legion Condor 1936-39: The Luftwaffe Develops Blitzkrieg in the Spanish Civil War
Malaya and Dutch East Indies 1941-42: Japan's air power shocks the world
Malta 1940-42: The Axis' Air Battle for Mediterranean Supremacy
Norway 1940: The Luftwaffe's Scandinavian Blitzkrieg
Oil Campaign 1944-45, The: Draining the Wehrmacht's lifeblood
Operation Crossbow 1944: Hunting Hitler's V-weapons
Operation Linebacker I 1972: The First High-Tech Air War
Ploesti 1943: The great raid on Hitler's Romanian oil refineries
Rabaul 1943-44: Reducing Japan's Great Island Fortress
Rolling Thunder 1965-68: Johnson's Air War Over Vietnam
Ruhr 1943, The: The RAF's Brutal Fight for Germany's Industrial Heartland
Schweinfurt-Regensburg 1943: Eighth Air Force's Costly Early Daylight Battles
Sinking Force Z 1941: The day the Imperial Japanese Navy killed the battleship
Stalingrad Airlift 1942-43: The Luftwaffe's broken promise to Sixth Army
Truk 1944-45: The destruction of Japan's Central Pacific bastion

Dr James Corum is a retired US Army Reserve lieutenant colonel. He taught military history at Salford University, UK, from 2014 to 2019, and was dean of the Baltic Defence College from 2009 to 2014. From 1991 to 2004, he served as a professor at the US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Power Studies. From 2005 to 2008 he was an associate professor at the US Army Command and General Staff College. Dr Corum is the author of several books on military history, including The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform (1992); The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940 (1997); Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen, Master of the German Air War (2008); The Luftwaffe' s Way of War: German Air Doctrine,1911-1945, with Richard Muller (1998); Airpower in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents and Terrorists, with Wray Johnson (2003); Fighting the War on Terror: A Counterinsurgency Strategy (2007); and Bad Strategies: How Major Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency (2008).
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781472847454
Published: 22 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Osprey Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 248mm
Width: 184mm
Weight: 308g
Pages: 96

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