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Some days, Laurence struggled to motivate himself to go in to work, and once there, he couldn’t bring himself to leave.
“British battleships were driven by between 30 and 100 megawatts of power.”
― Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
― Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
“Neville Chamberlain, the only British prime minister until Margaret Thatcher to have had a university education in science and the only university-educated twentieth-century prime minister to have studied entirely outside Oxbridge.”
― Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
― Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
“Thus, a battleship cost around £10m in 1940. Building that battleship today might cost £500m, but to build a battleship representing the same proportion of current GDP would mean spending £2.5bn.”
― Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
― Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
“These facts were confusing in their own time, and there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be confusing in a novel that doesn’t aspire to accurately represent that time, but does want to present it as a theory about the world we live in today.”
― Sudden Death
― Sudden Death
“The great expanding centre of ‘inner Britain’, London, did not build ships but it built aeroplanes, it did not mine coal but it made electrical equipment, it did not grow food but it did process it – into beer, refined sugar, Horlicks and Mars bars. It made tyres, Hoovers, films.”
― Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
― Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
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