The Book on the Arms trade

Reviewed by Russell D. Melling, 2007-09-28

Jonathan Grant's highly anticipated new book is a must-read for anyone interested in the inner workings of the pre-Great War international arms industry. I war especially interested in the chapters that dealt with arms trade in Africa and how the Great powers used the continent as a dumping ground for their obsolete weapons. What happened West Africa in the last decade of the twentieth century was just a replay of the arms dumping in the horn of Africa exactly a hundred years earlier.An excellent book.