The Audit of War by Correlli Barnett

The Audit of War by Correlli Barnett

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Argues that British industry during the Second World War was scandalously inefficient, a situation Barnett blamed on an establishment more concerned with welfare than with industry, technology or the capacity of the nation to fight a war.

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The Audit of War by Correlli Barnett

Argues that British industry during the Second World War was scandalously inefficient, a situation Barnett blamed on an establishment more concerned with welfare than with industry, technology or the capacity of the nation to fight a war.
Correlli Barnett is a world-renowned historian with particular prowess in military, naval, economic and social subjects. Faber Finds are reissuing his four volume The Pride and Fall sequence: The Collapse of British Power, The Audit of War, The Lost Victory, The Verdict of Peace, as well as The Swordbearers, Britain and her Army, 1509-1970 (winner of the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Award) and Engage the Enemy More Closely (winner of the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award).
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ISBN 13 9780571280186
ISBN 10 0571280188
Title The Audit of War
Author Correlli Barnett
Series Pride And Fall Sequence
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2011-07-21
Number of pages 372
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