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Author Bailey, Gavin J., author.

Title The arsenal of democracy : aircraft supply and the evolution of the Anglo-American alliance, 1938-1942 / Gavin J. Bailey
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Edinburgh studies in Anglo-American relations
Edinburgh studies in Anglo-American relations.
Contents The Anglo-American Relationship and the Need for Historical Interpretation -- The Evolution of Transatlantic Aircraft Supply Diplomacy, 1938-40 -- The Diplomacy of Critical Dependency, 1940 -- Lend-Lease and the Politics of Supply, 1941 -- The Limits of Dependency: American Aircraft in Action, 1940-2 -- Heavy Bomber Supply Diplomacy, 1941-2 -- The Problem of Quality: the Fighter Supply Crisis of 1942 -- Collaboration and Interdependency -- Appendix: RAF Air Strength by aircraft type on 3 September 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942
Summary A critical re-examination of the conduct and outcome of Anglo-American wartime aircraft supply diplomacy. Through a series of case studies, Gavin J. Bailey reveals new details of how Britain used American aircraft and integrates this with broader British statecraft and strategy. He challenges conceptions that Britain was strategically reliant on the US and reveals a complicated, asymmetrical dependency between the wartime allies. Aircraft were at the heart of British supply diplomacy with the United States in the Second World War and were at the forefront of the Roosevelt administration's policy of aiding the Anglo-French alliance against Germany. They were the largest item in British purchasing in the US in 1940, a key consideration in the Lend-Lease of 1941 and a major component of several wartime conferences between Churchill and Roosevelt. Key Features. Challenges the basis of existing historiography in the area Adjusts the overall understanding of Anglo-American relations and their diplomacy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- Procurement -- History
SUBJECT Great Britain. Royal Air Force fast
Subject Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
Aeronautics, Military -- Great Britain -- Equipment and supplies -- History -- 20th century
Aeronautics, Military -- United States -- Equipment and supplies -- History -- 20th century
Aeronautics and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Aeronautics and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- Military -- Aviation.
Lend-lease operations (1941-1945)
Aeronautics and state
Aeronautics, Military -- Equipment and supplies
Armed Forces -- Procurement
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748649730
0748649735