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Arming the Western Front - War, Business and the State in Britain 1900-1920 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Arming the Western Front - War, Business and the State in Britain 1900-1920 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
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The First World War was above all a war of logistics. Whilst the
conflict will forever be remembered for the mud and slaughter of
the Western Front, it was a war won on the factory floor as much as
the battlefield. Examining the war from an industrial perspective,
Arming the Western Front examines how the British between 1900 and
1920 set about mobilising economic and human resources to meet the
challenge of 'industrial war'. Beginning with an assessment of the
run up to war, the book examines Edwardian business-state relations
in terms of armament supply. It then outlines events during the
first year of the war, taking a critical view of competing
constructs of the war and considering how these influenced decision
makers in both the private and public domains. This sets the
framework for an examination of the response of business firms to
the demand for 'shells more shells', and their varying ability to
innovate and manage changing methods of production and
organisation. The outcome, a central theme of the book, was a
complex and evolving trade-off between the quantity and quality of
munitions supply, an issue that became particularly acute during
the Battle of the Somme in 1916. This deepened the economic and
political tensions between the military, the Ministry of Munitions,
and private engineering contractors as the pressure to increase
output accelerated markedly in the search for victory on the
western front. The Great War created a dual army, one in the field,
the other at home producing munitions, and the final section of the
book examines the tensions between the two as the country strove
for final victory and faced the challenges of the transition to the
peace time economy.
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