Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs

by George C. Peden

Book Overview

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"