The British Coal-Mining Industry during the War

Abstract

SIR RICHARD REDMAYNE is to be congratulated upon having produced a work of quite exceptional interest; the history of the means by which the British coal supply, upon which our chances of victory so greatly depended during the War, was maintained, must necessarily be interesting, but it becomes even more so when it is told by one who himself played a leading part in this strenuous work. In no other way would it have been possible for the public to gain even an insight into the elaborate and complex operations that were required in order to maintain the output of this indispensable fuel through the whole of that trying and anxious time. The British Coal-Mining Industry during the War. By Sir R. A. S. Redmayne. (Economic and Social History of the World War, British Series. Published on behalf of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.) Pp. xv+348. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1923.) 10s. 6d. net.