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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	März 2022
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
	Aerospace & aviation technology / Aviation Manufacturing Industry / c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) / Gender studies# women / HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century / HISTORY / Social History / Mining Industry / Mining technology & engineering / Ordnance, weapons technology / Second World War / Shipbuilding industry / Social & cultural history / Tanks & military land vehicles / United Kingdom, Great Britain
ISBN:	9781784425029
EAN-Code:	9781784425029
Verlag:	Bloomsbury
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 210 mm / B 149 mm / D
Gewicht:	146 gr
Seiten:	64
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An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft. During the Second World War (1939-45), Britain stretched every sinew of its industrial might to fend off a Nazi invasion. As the nation stood alone against Fortress Europe, it harnessed, coordinated and maximised its resources, firstly to defend itself and then to help liberate Axis-occupied countries. Wartime Industry uses informative text and beautiful illustrations to show how the men and women of Britain met this unprecedented demand for military and home-front materials. It explores the work of Lord Beaverbrook's highly organised Ministry of Aircraft Production; the 'Shadow Factories' that enabled manufacturers such as Vauxhall and Rootes to make tanks and aircraft; the Royal Ordnance Factories that produced firearms and explosives; the 'Bevin Boys' conscripted to work in the coal mines; the Women's Timber Corps; and war workers - who, together, helped the nation to make it.