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Phillips, Christopher, author.

Title Civilian specialists at war : Britain's transport experts and the First World War / Christopher Phillips.

Publication Info.

London : Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Press, 2020.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
Series	New historical perspectives
	New historical perspectives.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-406) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	The war of 1914-18 was the first great conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods to the field of battle. In Civilian Specialists at War, Christopher Phillips examines the manner in which Britain's industrial society influenced the character and conduct of industrial warfare. This book analyses the multiple connections between the military, the government and the senior executives of some of pre-war Britain's largest companies. It illustrates the British army's evolving response to the First World War and the role to be played by non-military expertise in the prosecution of such a conflict. This study demonstrates that pre-existing professional relationships between the army, the government and private enterprise were exploited throughout the conflict. It details how civilian technologies facilitated the prosecution of war on an unprecedented scale, while showing how British experts were constrained by the political and military demands of coalition warfare. Civilian Specialists at War reveals that Britain's transport experts were a key component in the country's conduct of the First World War.
Subject	Great Britain. Army. British Expeditionary Force -- Transportation.
	Great Britain. Army. British Expeditionary Force
	World War, 1914-1918 -- Transportation -- Great Britain.
	Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Transport -- Grande-Bretagne.
	Armed Forces -- Transportation
	Transportation
	Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
	World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9cvdKydGHm4yKx7Gb
Chronological Term	1914-1918
Other Form:	Print version: PHILLIPS, CHRISTOPHER. Civilian Specialists at War : Britain's transport experts and the first world war. [Place of publication not identified], Institute OF HISTORICAL R, 2018 1909646970 (OCoLC)1035823330
ISBN	9781909646926 (electronic bk.)
	190964692X (electronic bk.)
	1909646970
	9781909646971