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Civilian specialists at war :Britain's transport experts and the First World War

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The war of 1914–18 was the first great conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods to the field of battle. In Civilian Specialists at War, Christopher Phillips examines the manner in which Britain’s industrial society influenced the character and conduct of industrial warfare. This book analyses the multiple connections between the military, the government and the senior executives of some of pre-war Britain’s largest companies. It illustrates the British army’s evolving response to the First World War and the role to be played by non-military expertise in the prosecution of such a conflict. This study demonstrates that pre-existing professional relationships between the army, the government and private enterprise were exploited throughout the conflict. It details how civilian technologies facilitated the prosecution of war on an unprecedented scale, while showing how British experts were constrained by the political and military demands of coalition warfare. Civilian Specialists at War reveals that Britain’s transport experts were a key component in the country’s conduct of the First World War.

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Signatur

940.421 PHI c

Verlag

London : University of London Press., 2020

Umfang

xviii, 424p. : ill.

Sprache

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781909646926

Klassifikation

940.421

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text

Medientyp

computer

Datenträgertyp

online resource

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Schlagwörter

World War I
Humans
United Kingdom
Military Personnel
Military Medicine

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