The Armies of Industry: Our Nation's Manufacture of Munitions for a World in Arms, 1917-1918, in Two Volumes (How America Went To War, Volumes 4 and 5 of 6)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2330255
First editions. No jacket. Minor general wear.
xxiii, 382; 384-738 pp. Volumes 4 and 5 of 6. Illustrated with photographs from the collections of the War and Navy Departments. CONTENTS: Introduction; Preface; War Department Organization; The Ordinance Problem; Gun Production; Mobile Field Artillery; Railway Artillery; Motorized Artillery; Sights and Fire-control Apparatus; Explosives, Propellants, and Artillery Ammunition; Tanks; Machine Guns; Service Rifles; Pistols and Revolvers; Small-arms Ammunition; Trench-warfare Material; Miscellaneous Ordnance Equipment; Navy Ordnance; Airplanes; The Liberty Engine; Other Airplane Engines; Aviation Equipment and Armament; The Airplane Radio Telephone; Balloons; Warships and Flying Boats; Toxic Gases; Gas Masks; General Engineering Supplies; Listening Gear and Searchlights; Signal Material; Food; Clothing and Equipage; Miscellaneous Quartermaster Undertakings; Vehicles; Medical Supplies; America's Industrial Role; Index.
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