Car Wars: The International Giants and the World they made By Jonathan Mantle
Car Wars: The International Giants and the World they Made (Collectible First Edition)
Boardroom Battles, Industrial Espionage, and Treachery in the Global Automotive Empire
Boardroom Battles, Industrial Espionage, and Treachery in the Global Automotive Empire
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Car Wars: The International Giants and the World they Made
- Author: Jonathan Mantle
- Publisher: Macmillan, London
- Publication Date: 1995
- ISBN-10: 033361867X / ISBN-13: 9780333618677
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Impression. High-end industrial espionage and corporate history monograph.
- Binding: Hardcover with original publisher's heavy cloth boards, housed in a complete illustrated dust jacket under a protective archive cellophane wrapper.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 241 pages. Enhanced with extensive corporate timeline indexing and comprehensive bibliographical source notes.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's heavy cloth boards are exceptionally sharp, perfectly square, and firm. The spine remains pristine, straight, robustly bound, and uncreased with perfect structural integrity.
- Interior: Exceptional and pristine. The pages are immaculately clean, crisp, and fully intact. Free from handling soils, ink highlights, previous owner names, or dealer pencil notations. Shows very light, uniform, natural age-related paper tanning along the margins, entirely standard for mid-1990s Macmillan print stock and serving as an authentic mark of its vintage provenance.
- Protection: This investigative corporate volume has been beautifully maintained and looked after thus far, now preserved under a professional, removable archival-grade cellophane sleeve.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Condition: The original illustrated dust jacket is complete and unclipped. It exhibits only very slight, microscopic signs of standard retail shelf storage wear along the extreme corner tips, completely free of deep sun fading, chips, or tears.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 1995 by Macmillan, Jonathan Mantle's Car Wars is a meticulously researched, explosive corporate history that uses the multi-billion-dollar automotive industry as a lens to view the geopolitical history of the second half of the twentieth century. Moving far beyond basic assembly lines, Mantle takes the reader on a high-stakes rollercoaster ride from the ruins of Berlin and Tokyo in 1945, through Detroit, Moscow, and Calcutta, directly into the booming Asian corridors of Korea, Hong Kong, and Shanghai in the 1990s. The text reads like a corporate thriller, packed with extraordinary tales of executive greed, boardroom treachery, high-level industrial espionage, and organized theft. By mapping out the ruthless corporate warfare waged by the transnational automotive empires, this first impression stands as a vital historical record charting the fierce transition into globalised 21st-century manufacturing.
Published in 1995 by Macmillan, Jonathan Mantle's Car Wars is a meticulously researched, explosive corporate history that uses the multi-billion-dollar automotive industry as a lens to view the geopolitical history of the second half of the twentieth century. Moving far beyond basic assembly lines, Mantle takes the reader on a high-stakes rollercoaster ride from the ruins of Berlin and Tokyo in 1945, through Detroit, Moscow, and Calcutta, directly into the booming Asian corridors of Korea, Hong Kong, and Shanghai in the 1990s. The text reads like a corporate thriller, packed with extraordinary tales of executive greed, boardroom treachery, high-level industrial espionage, and organized theft. By mapping out the ruthless corporate warfare waged by the transnational automotive empires, this first impression stands as a vital historical record charting the fierce transition into globalised 21st-century manufacturing.
Author Profile: Jonathan Mantle
Jonathan Mantle is a highly accomplished British investigative journalist, corporate historian, and bestselling author who has written extensively on international financial empires, industrial dynasties, and complex economic histories. Renowned for his aggressive archival research and rare access to elite boardroom insider sources, Mantle specialized in translating massive industrial case studies into gripping, narrative-driven history books. His publications—including his celebrated investigative works into the British property booms and international shipping lines—are highly sought-after by bibliophiles for their combination of deep academic accuracy and thrilling prose style.
Jonathan Mantle is a highly accomplished British investigative journalist, corporate historian, and bestselling author who has written extensively on international financial empires, industrial dynasties, and complex economic histories. Renowned for his aggressive archival research and rare access to elite boardroom insider sources, Mantle specialized in translating massive industrial case studies into gripping, narrative-driven history books. His publications—including his celebrated investigative works into the British property booms and international shipping lines—are highly sought-after by bibliophiles for their combination of deep academic accuracy and thrilling prose style.
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