Britain's War Machine

A book which challenges all our preconceptions about Britain playing the role of the plucky underdog in World War II, arguing that in fact, this country used its high technology, new weapon systems, military scientists, colossal factories, inventiveness and resources to win through. 'Brilliant and thought-provoking' "Sunday Telegraph"

David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor at Imperial College London, where he was the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. He is the author of a sequence of groundbreaking books on 20th century Britain: England and the Aeroplane: An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation; Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970; and Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970. He is also the author of the iconoclastic and brilliant The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900