{"product_id":"2026100009197-secondhand-the-role-of-science-and-industry","title":"The Role Of Science And Industry","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a nation goes to war, its survival depends not only on the courage of its soldiers but on the ingenuity of its scientists and the productivity of its factories — a truth that D. P. Mellor's authoritative chronicle brings into sharp and compelling focus. The Role of Science and Industry is a definitive volume in the official Australian history of the Second World War, published by the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, that meticulously details how Australian science, technology, and industrial capacity were mobilised and transformed under the extraordinary pressures of global conflict. Mellor documents the critical contributions of civilian researchers, engineers, and manufacturers who worked alongside the military to develop weapons, medical advances, communications technology, and logistical solutions that proved decisive to the Allied war effort in the Pacific and beyond.\n\nRigorous in its scholarship yet accessible in its narrative, this volume stands as an essential work of institutional and military history, illustrating the profound and often overlooked relationship between scientific progress and wartime strategy. Mellor argues convincingly that Australia's industrial and scientific mobilisation represented a turning point in the nation's identity — forging a new understanding of what a modern, self-sufficient nation could achieve. For historians, scientists, and those captivated by the untold stories of the Second World War, this is a volume that reveals how battles are won long before they are ever fought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269345583323,"sku":"2026100009197-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/82a81f50-b9f5-4ae2-ae8f-732365c8896e.png?v=1788998941","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009197-secondhand-the-role-of-science-and-industry","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}