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British Imperial Air Power: The Royal Air Forces and the Defense of Australia and New Zealand Between the World Wars Paperback - 2020

by Alex M. Spencer; Foreword by Richard Hallion


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British Imperial Air Power examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. It also demonstrates the difficulty of applying new military aviation technology to the defense of the global Empire and provides insight into the nature of the political relationship between the Pacific Dominions and Britain. Following World War I, both Dominions sought greater independence in defense and foreign policy. Public aversion to military matters and the economic dislocation resulting from the war and later the Depression left little money that could be provided for their respective air forces. As a result, the Empire's air services spent the entire interwar period attempting to create a strategy in the face of these handicaps. In order to survive, the British Empire's military air forces offered themselves as a practical and economical third option in the defense of Britain's global Empire, intending to replace the Royal Navy and British Army as the traditional pillars of imperial defense.

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  • Title British Imperial Air Power: The Royal Air Forces and the Defense of Australia and New Zealand Between the World Wars
  • Author Alex M. Spencer; Foreword by Richard Hallion
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 318
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Purdue University Press
  • Date 2020-06-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781557539403 / 1557539405
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.67 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Australian
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
  • Library of Congress subjects Commonwealth countries - History, Military, Air forces - Australia - History - 20th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020001443
  • Dewey Decimal Code 358.400

About the author

Alex M Spencer earned his PhD in modern European history from Auburn University. His research focuses on British and Commonwealth military aviation during the twentieth century. He curates two collections at the National Air and Space Museum: British and European military aircraft and flight materiel. Together they include the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, de Havilland Mosquito, Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Me 262, Heinkel He 219, Arado Ar 234, and over sixteen thousand artifacts of personal items, including uniforms, flight clothing, memorabilia, ribbons, and medals. Spencer was the coeditor of Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography.

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