Peter Marsh LIBERTY FACTORY First Edition Hardback 2021
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Peter Marsh LIBERTY FACTORY First Edition Hardback 2021
First edition first print hardback of LIBERTY FACTORY: The Untold Story of Henry Kaiser's Oregon Shipyards, by Peter J. Marsh and published by Seaforth Publishing in 2021.The book is in as new condition (black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in an as new unclipped dust jacket which also has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight.
Churchill famously claimed that the only thing that had really frightened him during the war was the Battle of the Atlantic. Keeping open the lifeline between the US 'arsenal of democracy' and the UK was essential to preparations for the invasion of Europe and in the final analysis this came down to building merchant ships faster than German U-boats could sink them. Crucial to this achievement was the 'Liberty ship', a simple freighter that could be built quickly. Undoubtedly the most important individual in the rapid expansion of US wartime shipyard capacity was Henry Kaiser, a man with no previous shipbuilding experience but an entrepreneur of vision and drive. This book tells the story of how he established huge new yards using novel mass-production techniques in the most surprising location Oregon.
256 pages including Sources and Further Reading, Sources of Photographs and Index. Illustrated with black & white photographs.
ISBN: 9781526783059
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