| Entry Text: | DOUGHTY, Martin. Merchant Shipping and War: A Study in Defence Planning in Twentieth-Century Britain (Royal Historical Society Studies in History Series, no. 31). ix, 220p., bibliog., index. London: Royal Historical Society; New York: Humanities, 1982. ISBN: 0901050830.
A study of how the lessons of World War I affected the management of shipping and the ports in WWII. The book is much concerned with the organisation of the Merchant Navy in wartime and the arrangements made to receive and distribute imported goods. |
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