| The Lion Killers: Billy Mitchell and the Birth of Strategic Bombing |
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This is a story about the birth of air power and the people who fought for its existence. One such man was William "Billy" Mitchell. A staunch advocate of air power, Mitchell's ideas were controversial in a time when the General and the Admiral were deemed the sole proprietors of modern warfare. The bombing test that took place off the Outer Banks in 1923 proved conclusively the strength and future of air power. This is a history uniquely American. It includes the faces and stories of a small coastal community, of world leaders, and of the man who brought them together. When author William Schwarzer moved to Hatteras Island at age eleven, he had already moved twenty times, living in New York, New Jersey, Turkey and Massachusetts. Now 19, he is chairman of the exhibit and events celebrating the 80th anniversary of Billy Mitchell's revolutionary bombing test off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Schwarzer's numerous articles on Mitchell can be found in newspapers and magazines. This is his first book. Price $8.50 |