Britain's War Machine - Weapons, Resources, and Experts in the Second World War

Informationen zum Autor David Edgerton is the 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 the iconoclastic and brilliant The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (OUP, 2007). Klappentext The familiar Britain in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, powerful in production, and ruthless in pursuit of its interests.

Product details

• Authors: David Edgerton
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.09.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780199832675
• ISBN: 978-0-19-983267-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries