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The Military-Industrial Enclosure of Britain's Countryside in the Second World War: Fields Into Factories

The Military-Industrial Enclosure of Britain's Countryside in the Second World War: Fields Into Factories

Willis, Gary

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesBritish HistoryWorld War II

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 18, 2027

ISBN10: 1350546844
ISBN13: 9781350546844
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 18 2027
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is an examination of how Britain's Second World War aircraft building and arms production led to a state-sponsored military-industrial land enclosure that irrevocably changed the nation's landscape. Using a wide range of previously ignored and understudied material from national and local archives, The Military-Industrial Enclosure of Britain's Countryside in the Second World War uncovers the location, origins, war-time use and post-war lives of a critical mass of 220 sites owned and/or operated by the Ministry of Supply and Ministry of Aircraft Production, the two ministries at the heart of British war production.

Through a chronological analysis of the lives of these factories, Gary Willis demonstrates that, from an environmental history perspective, Britain experienced a long Second World War from 1936 when sites were first identified and building commenced, until 1946, by which time the post-war fate of the majority of sites had been decided. That this military-industrial infrastructure was predominantly built on green-field sites in rural and peri-urban areas has not previously been identified, analysed or quantified, and as a result the broad environmental impact of Britain's Second World War has been obscured until now.

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