British Rearmament in the Thirties. Politics and profits
Details:
- Author(s) Shay, Robert P
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1977
- Pages 315pp; illus
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Place Published Princeton NJ
Topics:
- Name Government procurement
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Deals with the very substantial British rearmament programme of the late 1930s and the political process through which it was formulated, shedding light on procurement from the armaments industry, especially aircraft production. Chapters include: 'The coming of the National Government and the pressures to rearm'; 'Towards a substantive commitment, April 1935-August 1936'; 'Industrial mobilization for rearmament'; 'The financing of defence'; 'The rationing of services'; 'The Anschluss and the Czech Crisis. The acid test of rationing and appeasement'; 'From Munich to war'