![]() Low’s analysis of defeat (British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent/Evening Standard) Sources of British imports now shut off by Nazi domination of Europe, late 1940. Low’s ‘Very well, alone’ (British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent/Evening Standard)įougasse’s contrasting view (Punch, reproduced with the permission of Punch Ltd, 49 Low’s view of British arms production in 1940 (British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent/Evening Standard) Sources of British imports in the late 1930s. Relative bombing weights (from Lord Tedder, Air Power in War, London, 1947) Sir John Anderson (Getty Images, 3141763) 30. Roe & Co Ltd factory, Woodford, 1943 (IWM TR1386) 29. Avro Lancaster bombers nearing completion at the A. Forging a big gun, Sheffield, 1941, painted by Sir Henry Rushbury (IWM ART LD961) 28. The Rolls-Royce Hillington factory from the air, 1940 (SC 458782 © Courtesy of RCAHMS/RAF Air Photographs Collection) (Licensor 27. A munitions factory in Beverley, 1944, painted by Frederick William Elwell (IWM ART LD4908) 26. Inspecting aero-engines at Rolls-Royce Hillington, 1942 (Getty Images 78962544 Popperfoto) 25. The Anglo-Iranian refinery at Abadan (Getty Images 50496057/ Photographer Dmitri Kessel) 23. The synthetic aviation spirit plant at Heysham (Churchill Archives Centre, Hartley Papers) 22. Land Army women being trained to saw larch poles (IWM TR914) 21. Sugar beet harvesting (Library of Congress LC-DIGfsa-8e09323). A refugee Belgian fisherman working out of Brixham (IWM TR1868) 19. Corned beef from Uruguay (Getty Images 50456526/ Photographer Hart Preston) 18. ![]() Bacon from the USA, 1941 (Library of Congress LC-USW 33-030756-C) 17. A merchant unloads flour into lighters, 1943 (IWM TR1427)ġ6. Potatoes as a substitute for imported wheat and flour (IWM PST743) 15. ‘Tanks for Russia’ week, September 1941 (Library of Congress, LC-DIG-fsa-8e09321). A propaganda poster from late 1940 (IWM PST14028) 12. British tanks in 1941 (Library of Congress LC-DIGfsa-8e09217) 11. A Z-battery of anti-aircraft rockets (IWM H10791) 10. Churchill with trench-cutting machine, November 1941 (IWM MH957) 9. Filling shells in India (Library of Congress LC-USE6-D-008637) 7. The MS Dominion Monarch (Getty Images 104109082/ Photographer, Humphrey Spender) 5. Britain’s global shipping distribution, 24 November 1937 (© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London G201:1/29/F0516) 4. Glasgow Empire Exhibition, 1938 (SC 1072395 © Courtesy of RCAHMS. ‘We will win because we are the strongest’ (IWM PST8432) 2. Military art and science-Technological innovations-Great Britain-History-20th century. Industrial mobilization-Great Britain-History-20th century. Great Britain-History, Military-20th century. Great Britain-Armed Forces-Weapons systems-History-20th century. Great Britain-Armed Forces-Equipment- History-20th century. World War, 1939–1945-Economic aspect-Great Britain. Britain’s war machine : weapons, resources, and experts in the Second World War / David Edgerton. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Edgerton, David. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. First published in the United States in 2011 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2011 by David Edgerton First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Allen Lane. Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. D AVI D E DG E R T O N Britain’s War Machine Weapons, Resources, and Experts in the Second World War
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