Helicopters

Wisconsin Bookwatch, July, 2005

Helicopters

Stanley S. McGowen

ABC-CLIO

Box 1911, Santa Barbara, CA 93116-1911

1851094687 $85.00 1-800-368-6868

New to the "Weapons and Warfare" series, Helicopters: An Illustrated History Of Their Impact is an in-depth study of how the helicopter has transformed warfare, from the first successful machines in the early 1900s to the latest technological advances of the twenty-first century. Written by an adjunct professor of military history at Columbia College, Helicopters is the story of innovation against opposition, as time and again helicopter designers created more capable rotocraft and had to persuade doubting military planners to allocate the funds to build and deploy them. Black-and-white photographs of numerous helicopter models flesh out this extensively researched, at times technical survey that nonetheless will appeal to non-specialist general readers and military aviation history scholars alike.