War Business: Geschäfte mit Waffen und Krieg

by George Thayer, Ulla Leipe

Titel der Originalausgabe: The War Business - the International Trade in Armaments -

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Der internationale Waffenhandel setzt jährlich zehn Milliarden Dollar um. Aggressive Waffenexporteure in Ost und West sorgen dafür, dass den gefrässigen "Märkten" in aller Welt der Nachschub nicht ausgeht. die Lieferanten verfügen über ein reiches, zweifelfates Angebot: Neuentwickeltes, veraltetes oder fehlerhaftes Kriegsgerät wird zu horrenden Preisen in einem nie abreissenden Strom in alle Winkel der Erde geschickt.

Hardcover

First published June 9, 1969

About the author

Mr. Thayer was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 and in 1958 received a diploma in international business administration from the University of Geneva.

He spent a year in residence at the London School of Economics in 1963‐64 and the following year was a research assistant to Randolph S. Churchill working on the biography of Sir Winston Churchill.

Mr. Thayer served as a speechwriter for Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York in 1968, for Senator Claiborne Pell, Democrat of Rhode Island, in 1969, and for Representative Lawrence R. Coughlin, Republican of Pennsylvania, from 1969 until last year.

His book reviews and ar ticles appeared in Harpers magazine, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly and The London Observer.

Excerpt from the obituary George C. Thayer, Political Writer published in The New York Times 14. August 1973.