Arms, economics and British strategy : from dreadnoughts to hydrogen bombs / G.C. Peden.
Arms, economics and British strategy : from dreadnoughts to hydrogen bombs / G.C. Peden.
Arms, economics and British strategy : from dreadnoughts to hydrogen bombs / G.C. Peden.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N355.03304/ 33
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 384 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1
The dreadnought era, 1904-1914 --
2
The First World War --
3
Retrenchment and rearmament, 1919-1939 --
4
The Second World War --
5
The impacts of the atomic bomb and the Cold War, 1945-1954 --
6
The hydrogen bomb, the economy and decolonisation, 1954-1969.
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2007.
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Summary
"This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G.C. Peden explores how, from the Edwardian era to the 1960s, warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear...
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Arms, economics and British strategy : from dreadnoughts to hydrogen bombs / G.C. Peden.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N355.03304/ 33
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74VKOLZZ0AqO
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0521867487 (hbk.) :
9780521867481 (hbk.) :
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355.033041
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991022510029702626
