| Description |
xiii, 384 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge military histories |
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Cambridge military histories.
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| 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 |
| 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 weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History, Military.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056834
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Great Britain -- Military policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100235
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| Author |
MyiLibrary.
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| LC no. |
2007296795 |
| ISBN |
0521867487 (hbk.) |
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9780521867481 (hbk.) |
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