The Armies of Industry: Our Nation's Manufacture of Munitions for a World in Arms, 1917-1918 (Classic Reprint)By Benedict Crowell
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The Armies of Industry: Our Nation's Manufacture of Munitions for a World in Arms, 1917-1918 (Classic Reprint)By Benedict Crowell- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This book is fascinating and easy to read By Bruce E. Mccall This is a detailed study of the United States industrial mobilization effort in World War I. The author, Benedict Crowell, was the US Assistant Secretary of War from 1917 to 1920. This book was originally published as “America’s Munitions 1917-1918” (c. 1919, 592 pages). However, this book (which repeats most of the previous chapters) adds another 170 pages and was originally printed in two volumes.The United States faced an enormous challenge in 1917. America remained neutral throughout the first two and a half years of war because they believed that the British, French and Russians could defeat the Germans without outside help. After officially joining the war, they were shocked to learn that the Allies were really on the edge of defeat. Within less than two years, the US Army, with less than two hundred thousand men, had grown to a fully modern and well equipped army of four million. Not only did America have to mobilize an army from almost nothing, but they also had to mobilize America’s industry. It took about a year before the new factories could start delivering the equipment to the Army. A majority of the contracts would not be finished until early 1919.This book examines the production of the many different types of supplies, weapons and other equipment needed to make a modern army. It covers the design and production of all kinds of weapons and ammunition, toxic gas and gas mask, air planes and airplane engines, balloons, wagons, motor vehicles a tanks, clothing and shoes, radios and field telephones, medical supplies and a host of other types of equipment. There are also chapters (not found in the previous book) on designing and building naval ordnance and escort ships.Each chapter is a self-contained story of one type of weapon or equipment. These chapters cover the history of the many details involved in the design and production of the topic. The book names the factories involved and list the numbers of items contracted for, produced by the end of the war and final production numbers. Most of these items never made it to the front lines before the war ended in November 1918. There are over two hundred photographs and charts. There is also an index. This book is fascinating and easy to read.Benedict Crowell wrote another equally interesting book “The Road to France, the Transportation of Troops and military Supplies 1917-1918” (c. 1921). This book is about the many problems of moving troops and supplies to the training centers, ports of embarkation and then on to France”.
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