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 of the History of Science and Technology and Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. He is the author of a sequence of ground-breaking books in 20th century British history: Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970; Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970; as well as Britain's War Machine, and England and the Aeroplane, both published by Penguin. He is also the author of the iconoclastic and brilliant The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.