David Edgerton

Britain's War Machine

Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. This title shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests and sitting at the heart of a global production system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• repr.
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780141026107
• ISBN-10: 0141026103
• Artikelnr.: 34505321

Autorenporträt

David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor at Imperial College London, where he was the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. He is the author of a sequence of groundbreaking books on 20th century Britain: England and the Aeroplane: An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation; Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970; and Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970. He is also the author of the iconoclastic and brilliant The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900

Rezensionen

Brilliant and thought-provoking ... There are moments of edgy humour, too ... This remarkable book shows that whatever the reasons for the length of time it took to bring Hitler to heel, the quantity and quality of British war material was not among them Brendan Simms Sunday Telegraph