Front cover image for Britain's war machine : weapons, resources and experts in the Second World War

Britain's war machine : weapons, resources and experts in the Second World War

David Edgerton's narrative shows an unfamiliar Britain of weapon systems, military scientists, and colossal factories which seemed to make British victory certain. The actual course of war was to create huge setbacks for this British vision of modernity. Time and again Britain found itself defeated by less well equipped enemies

Print Book, English, 2012
Penguin Books, London, 2012