by Anthony Sampson · tapa dura · ISBN 9780340213315
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«The Arms Bazaar» is the historical essay by Anthony Sampson, published by Hodder & Stoughton in hardcover (340 pages, in English).
British journalist Anthony Sampson unravels the complex web of the international arms trade: the major companies, the middlemen and the bribes that made it possible. The journey moves from Vickers to Lockheed and covers the development of the business in the twentieth century, up to the boom in sales in the 1970s.
The full subtitle is 'The Companies, the Dealers, the Bribes: from Vickers to Lockheed'. Published in 1977; includes bibliographic references and index.
For those interested in twentieth-century history, geopolitics and the arms business.
Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson was a British writer and journalist. His most notable and successful book was Anatomy of Britain, which was published in 1962 and was followed by five more "Anatomies", updating the original book under various titles. He was the grandson of the linguist John Sampson, of whom he wrote a biography, The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest For A Family Secret (1997). He also gave Nelson Mandela advice on Mandela's famous 1964 defence speech at the trial which led to his conviction for life.
