Arms and the Men. The arms trade and governments
Details:
- Author(s) Collier, Basil
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1980
- Pages 315pp; illus
- Publisher Hamish Hamilton
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Government procurement
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Written for a broad audience. Much based on UK experience. Gives - from early times although largely from late 19th century - 'some account of the genesis and development of the international trade in arms, the relations that have subsisted at various times between arms manufacturers and governments, and the means by which nations equip themselves for war'. Chapter on Sir Basil Zaharoff [pp80-93]. Chapters include: 'Merchants of death?'; 'Beginnings'; 'The new look'; 'The armaments kings'; 'The man of mystery - Zaharoff'; 'Armageddon'; 'American intervention and the Armistice'; 'Postwar'; 'Prelude to rearmament'; 'Rearmament'; 'World War II' 'Arms and the Grand Alliance'; 'World without peace'. Much on Vickers, Armstrong Whitworth, etc