Architects of Air Power - Epic of Flight Author:David Nevin, Time-Life Book (Editors) Architects of Air Power is a Time-Life aviation book included in the Epic of Flight series. — By the late 1930s air power had dramatically altered the strategic balance in Europe. The seeds of this new order had been sown in WWI. A few farsighted men -- notably British Chief of Air Staff Hugh Trenchard, "Billy" Mitchell of the ... more »U.S. Army's Air Service and Italian Army colonel Giulio Douhet -- insisted that an air force could undertake independent offensive action in war. The flying machines of their day were primitive and could carry only a handful of bombs but these architects of air power foresaw that in an era of total warfare, civilians as well a soldiers would become targets of aerial attacks aimed at crushing their will to resist. « less