Description: Much more than a technical account, this study assesses the social and economic impact of the military-industrial complex on small communities on the home front.
Brief description: Colin F. Baxter is professor emeritus of history at East Tennessee State University and former chair of the Department of History. He is the author of The Normandy Campaign, 1944: A Selected Bibliography; The War in North Africa, 1940-1943: A Selected Bibliography; Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1887-1976: A Selected Bibliography; and coeditor of The American Military Tradition from Colonial Times to the Present.
Review Quotes:
While the words 'World War Two' and ''bombs' are inextricably linked, few realise the impact and importance of a new explosive--RDX--to the Allied arsenal during that conflict. Colin Baxter carefully traces the invention of this substance while also highlighting the importance of Allied co-operation to its development. The story of an explosive might be considered a purely technical subject but Baxter paints a vivid human story of the scientists and engineers who developed the war-winning explosive and the many workers at the Holston Ordinance Works in Tennessee who produced this lethal compound. One of the great secrets of the war is thus revealed in this fascinating and telling book.
--Niall Barr, author of Eisenhower's Armies: The American-British Alliance during World War II