Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2003 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 404 p.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940. ISBN 0199261229 9780199261222 [GB]

ISBN10: 0199261229, ISBN13: 9780199261222, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Covering the period from the late 1930s up to the spring of 1940, this book offers the first systematic comparison of how two countries, Britain and France, responded to the possibility and then reality of total war by examining developments in three dimensions: strategic, domestic political, and political economic. To date, studies of French and British policies during this period have focused almost exclusively on diplomatic and military events. Yet becausetwentieth-century war demanded a massive effort on the part of nations and societies, its study requires a broader approach, one that encompasses the political, social, and economic dimensions as well asthe links between them. Using a wide array of archival and secondary sources, including the records of government departments, trade unions, business groups, and political parties, the book demonstrates that the British were more successful in managing the strains of modern industrial war than the French. Whereas in France political, economic, and military developments combined to produce a multi-faceted crisis by early 1940, imperilling the war effort against Germany,developments in Britain followed a different course that laid the political and economic foundations for a long war. The book's wide-ranging approach will interest political,social, economic, and military historians as well as historians o ...
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Oxford, England OUP Oxford 2003 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p.

ISBN10: 0199261229, ISBN13: 9780199261222, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 1.72
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ISBN10: 0199261229, ISBN13: 9780199261222, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Covering the period from the late 1930s up to the spring of 1940, this book offers the first systematic comparison of how two countries, Britain and France, responded to the possibility and then reality of total war by examining developments in three dimensions: strategic, domestic political, and political economic. To date, studies of French and British policies during this period have focused almost exclusively on diplomatic and military events. Yet becausetwentieth-century war demanded a massive effort on the part of nations and societies, its study requires a broader approach, one that encompasses the political, social, and economic dimensions as well asthe links between them. Using a wide array of archival and secondary sources, including the records of government departments, trade unions, business groups, and political parties, the book demonstrates that the British were more successful in managing the strains of modern industrial war than the French. Whereas in France political, economic, and military developments combined to produce a multi-faceted crisis by early 1940, imperilling the war effort against Germany,developments in Britain followed a different course that laid the political and economic foundations for a long war. The book's wide-ranging approach will interest political,social, economic, and military historians as well as historians o ...
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ISBN10: 0199261229, ISBN13: 9780199261222, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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