Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
(Part of the Cambridge Military Histories Series and Cambridge Military Histories Series)
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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 weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521108381
ISBN13:9780521108386
Release Date:April 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:400 Pages
Weight:1.29 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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