Britain's War Machine Quotes

“The great expanding centre of ‘inner Britain’, London, did not build ships but it built aeroplanes, it did not mine coal but it made electrical equipment, it did not grow food but it did process it – into beer, refined sugar, Horlicks and Mars bars. It made tyres, Hoovers, films.”
― David Edgerton, Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War

“Neville Chamberlain, the only British prime minister until Margaret Thatcher to have had a university education in science and the only university-educated twentieth-century prime minister to have studied entirely outside Oxbridge.”
― David Edgerton, Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War

“British battleships were driven by between 30 and 100 megawatts of power.”
― David Edgerton, Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War

“Thus, a battleship cost around £10m in 1940. Building that battleship today might cost £500m, but to build a battleship representing the same proportion of current GDP would mean spending £2.5bn.”
― David Edgerton, Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War