Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War

by Nicholas A. Lambert

Book Overview

Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system.

In this revisionist account, Nicholas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674061497
• ISBN13: 9780674061491
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 662 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"