How Long to Read Striking the Hornets' Nest

How Long Does it Take to Read Striking the Hornets' Nest?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Striking the Hornets' Nest by Geoffrey L Rossano

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Striking the Hornets’ Nest provides the first extensive analysis of the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy’s most innovative aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world’s first dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written about the Navy’s aviation activities in World War I and even less on the NBG. Standard studies of strategic bombing tend to focus on developments in the Royal Air Force or the U.S. Army Air Service. This work concentrates on the origins of strategic bombing in World War I, and the influence this phenomenon had on the Navy’s future use of the airplane. The NBG program faced enormous logistical and personnel challenges. Demands for aircraft, facilities, and personnel were daunting, and shipping shortages added to the seemingly endless delays in implementing the program. Despite the impediments, the Navy (and Marine Corps) triumphed over organizational hurdles and established a series of bases and depots in northern France and southern England in the late summer and early fall of 1918. Ironically, by the time the Navy was ready to commence bombing missions, the German retreat had caused abandonment of the submarine bases the NBG had been created to attack. The men involved in this program were pioneers, overcoming major obstacles only to find they were no longer needed. Though the Navy rapidly abandoned its use of strategic bombing after World War I, their brief experimentation directed the future use of aircraft in other branches of the armed forces. It is no coincidence that Robert Lovett, the young Navy reserve officer who developed much of the NBG program in 1918, spent the entire period of World War II as Assistant Secretary of War for Air where he played a crucial role organizing and equipping the strategic bombing campaign unleashed against Germany and Japan. Rossano and Wildenberg have provided a definitive study of the NBG, a subject that has been overlooked for too long.

How long is Striking the Hornets' Nest?

Striking the Hornets' Nest by Geoffrey L Rossano is 313 pages long, and a total of 79,189 words.

This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Striking the Hornets' Nest Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 12 minutes to read Striking the Hornets' Nest aloud.

What Reading Level is Striking the Hornets' Nest?

Striking the Hornets' Nest is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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