The Arms Bazaar. From Lebanon to Lockheed by Sampson, Anthony

Bantam, 1978. Soft Cover. xi, 401 p., index, chart; 18 cm. 'This is a book about the arms trade and its development over the last century, culminating in the contemporary boom in arms sales. It is about the companies who make the arms, and the attitudes and methods of the men who buy them and sell them, or try to control them. ...conventional arms exports, particularly those to the Third World, have always raised special moral and diplomatic problems... I have tried to show these problems as they have been seen by practitioners on both sides... The trade of its nature is secretive... The successive revelations about Lockheed and Northrop are historically important not so much for the evidence of bribery, which caused the immediate scandal, as for their detailed documentation and testimony, which gave unique insights into the day-to-day workings and attitudes of arms companies and salesmen all over the world...' Paper; good. Stock#32570.