Winning Armageddon: Curtis Lemay and Strategic Air Command, 1948-1957

by Trevor Albertson

Winning Armageddon provides definition to an all-too-long misunderstood figure of the Cold War, General Curtis E. LeMay, and tells the story of his advocacy for preemptive nuclear strikes while leading the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. In telling this story, Trevor Albertson builds for the reader a world that, while not in the distant past, has been forgotten by many; the lessons of that past, however, are as applicable today as they were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682474224
• ISBN13: 9781682474228
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"