David Edgerton is Hans Rausing Professor at Imperial College London, where he was the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. He is the author of a sequence of groundbreaking books on 20th century Britain- Science, Technology and the British Industrial 'Decline', 1870-1970; Warfare State- Britain, 1920-1970; and Britain's War Machine, published by Penguin. He is also the author of the iconoclastic and brilliant The Shock of the Old- Technology and Global History Since 1900.
A brilliant polemic
*Guardian*
Full of good stories ... an illuminating read
*Spectator*
A tour de force, after which the history of the aircraft industry
will never be quite the same again
*Business History*
David Edgerton's sure-footed essay ... sees Britain from an unusual
perspective ... His arguments provide sound backing for the idea
that modern Britain is as much a warfare state as a welfare one
*Economist*
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