The Arsenal of Democracy : Aircraft Supply and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1938-1942 (Edinburgh Studies in Anglo-american Relations)

Bailey, Gavin J.

Edinburgh University Press（2026/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399570954

Full Description

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. 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 interdependency between the wartime allies.

Contents

1. The Anglo-American Relationship and the Need for Historical Interpretation; 2. The Evolution of Transatlantic Aircraft Supply Diplomacy, 1938-40; 3. The Diplomacy of Critical Dependency, 1940; 4. Lend-Lease and the Politics of Supply, 1941; 5. The Limits of Dependency. American Aircraft in Action, 1941-42; 6. Heavy Bomber Supply Diplomacy, 1941-42; 7. The Problem of Quality. The Fighter Supply Crisis of 1942; 8. Collaboration and Interdependency; Appendix: RAF Air Strength by aircraft type on 3 Sep 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942; Unpublished sources cited in text; Bibliography.