Supplying The British Army In The Second World War

Author : Janet Macdonald
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526725387

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Supplying the British Army in the First World War by Janet Macdonald Pdf

An in-depth look at the logistics of keeping the British Army fed, clothed, armed, and supplied during World War I. Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach, but it also marches in its boots and its uniforms, carrying or driving its weapons and other equipment, and all this material has to be ordered from headquarters, produced and delivered. Janet Macdonald’s detailed and scholarly new study explains how this enormously complex task of organization and labour was carried out by the British army during the First World War. She describes the personnel who performed these tasks, from the government and military command in London to those who handled the items in the field. They were responsible for clothing, accommodation, medicine, transport, hand weapons, armament, and communications—a vast logistical network that had evolved to keep millions of men in the field. This meticulously researched account of this important subject—one which has hitherto been neglected by military historians—will be essential reading and reference for anyone who is interested in the modern British army, in particular in its organization and performance in the First World War.

Author : Janet Macdonald
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526725349

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Supplying the British Army in the Second World War by Janet Macdonald Pdf

The noted military historian reveals the fascinating history of British Army logistics during WWII in this scholarly study. Armies have always required large amounts of material, but by the Second World War the numbers of men involved had grown exponentially, their equipment had become mechanized, and their deployment was global. Elaborate planning and administration at every level had to ensure that items of all kinds were collected, transported and handed out in every theatre of the war. But how were these items selected, ordered, produced, and delivered? Following her previous volume, Supplying the British Army in the First World War, Janet MacDonald continues her study of how the British Army kept its soldiers fed, clothed, and ready to fight. The scale of the operation was enormous, and it had to be performed to critical timetables. Often threatened by enemy action, it was vital to the army’s success. MacDonald describes the necessity for central advanced planning for each expeditionary force as well as those engaged in home defense. She then elucidates the complex organization of personnel who performed these tasks, from the government and military command in London to those who distributed the equipment on the battlefield.

Author : John Norris
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473859159

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Logistics in World War II by John Norris Pdf

John Norris shows how logistics, though less glamorous than details of the fighting itself, played a decisive role in the outcome of every campaign and battle of World War Two. The author marshals some astounding facts and figures to convey the sheer scale of the task all belligerents faced to equip vast forces and supply them in the field. He also draws on first-hand accounts to illustrate what this meant for the men and women in the logistics chain and those depending on it at the sharp end. Many of the vehicles, from supply trucks to pack mules, and other relevant hardware are discussed and illustrated with numerous photographs. This first volume of two looks at the early years of the war, so we see, for example, how Hitlers panzer divisions were kept rolling in the Blitzkrieg (a German division in 1940 still had around 5000 horses, requiring hundreds of tonnes of fodder) and the British armys disastrous loss of equipment at Dunkirk. This is a fascinating and valuable study of a neglected aspect of World War Two.

Author : David Killingray,Martin Plaut
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781847010155

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Fighting for Britain by David Killingray,Martin Plaut Pdf

During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of the African experience of the war. It is a 'history from below' that describes how men were recruited for a war about which most knew very little. Army life exposed them to a range of new and startling experiences: new foods and forms of discipline, uniforms, machines and rifles, notions of industrial time, travel overseas, new languages and cultures, numeracy and literacy. What impact did service in the army have on African men and their families? What new skills did soldiers acquire and to what purposes were they put on their return? What was the social impact of overseas travel, and how did the broad umbrella of army welfare services change soldiers' expectations of civilian life? And what role if any did ex-servicemen play in post-war nationalist politics? In this book African soldiers describe in their own words what it was like to undergo army training, to travel on a vast ocean, to experience battle, and their hopes and disappointments on demobilisation. DAVID KILLINGRAY is Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Author : United States. War Finance Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Drawing, American
ISBN : MINN:31951D03563829X

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The Army at War by United States. War Finance Division Pdf

Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750979313

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Royal Artillery in the Second World War by Richard Doherty Pdf

During the Second World War, the Germans considered the Royal Artillery to be the most professional arm of the British Army: British gunners were accurate, effective and efficient, and provided fire support for their armoured and infantry colleagues that was better than that in any other army. However, the Royal Artillery delivered much more than field and medium artillery battlefield support. Gunner regiments manned antitank guns on the front line and light anti-aircraft guns in divisional regiments to defend against air attack at home and abroad. The Royal Artillery also helped to protect convoys that brought essential supplies to Britain, and AA gunners had their finest hour when they destroyed the majority of the V-1 flying bombs launched against Britain from June 1944. Richard Doherty delves into the wide-ranging role of the Royal Artillery, examining its state of preparedness in 1939, the many developments that were introduced during the war – including aerial observation and self-propelled artillery – the growth of the regiment and its effectiveness in its many roles. Royal Artillery in the Second World War is a comprehensive account of a British Army regiment that played a vital role in the ensuing Allied victory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:909900748

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Atlantic Charter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Pelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UCAL:B3159795

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Britain and the Second World War by Henry Pelling Pdf

Author : David Fraser
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448204823

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And We Shall Shock Them by David Fraser Pdf

First published in 1983 and written by a pre-eminent historian of the British Army, this is the definitive history of the British Army in the Second World War: its campaigns and battles, defeats and victories, across all theatres of operations from the outbreak of war with Germany in 1939 to the final defeat of Japan in 1945. Here the reader will find grand strategy at the highest level, but also the reality of command in the field and the experience of combat for the infantry, gunners and the tankers as the British Army fought its way through the War. But above all this is a full, authoritative and vividly written account of the British Army in the Second World War as it came to grips with, and in the end triumphed over, its enemies in the field.

Author : Chima J. Korieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425803

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Nigeria and World War II by Chima J. Korieh Pdf

A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.

Author : Richard M. Leighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UOM:39015028876152

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U.S. Merchant Shipping and the British Import Crisis by Richard M. Leighton Pdf

Author : Raghu Karnad
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393248104

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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War by Raghu Karnad Pdf

“I have not lately read a finer book than this—on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece.” —Simon Winchester, New Statesman The photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother’s house for as long as he could remember, beheld but never fully noticed. They had all fought in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces and onto the front line. Manek, dashing and confident, was a pilot with India’s fledgling air force; gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby’s pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq and the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939–45 might be the most revered, deplored, and replayed in modern history. Yet India’s extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself and from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family—a story of love, rebellion, loyalty, and uncertainty—and with it, the greater revelation that is India’s Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India’s war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma—unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world and swept up in its violence.

Author : Janet Macdonald
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526725363

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Supplying the British Army in the Second World War by Janet Macdonald Pdf

During the Second World War, how were the multitude of items required by the soldiers in the front line selected, ordered and delivered, and how were they produced? In this the second volume in her detailed, scholarly study of the army’s logistical system, Janet Macdonald describes the necessity for central advanced planning for each expeditionary force as well as those engaged in home defence, and the complex organization of personnel who performed these tasks, from the government and military command in London to those who distributed the equipment on the battlefield. Armies have always required large amounts of material, but by the Second World War the numbers of men involved had grown exponentially, their equipment had become mechanized and their deployment was world wide. Elaborate planning and administration at every level had to ensure that items of all kinds were collected, transported and handed out in every theatre of the war. The scale of the operation was enormous and it had to be performed to critical timetables and was sometimes threatened by enemy action, and it was vital to the army’s success.

Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191514968

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Medicine and Victory by Mark Harrison Pdf

Medicine and Victory is the first comprehensive account of British military medicine in the Second World War since the publication of the official history in the early 1950s. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-official sources, the book examines medical work in all the main theatres of the war, from the front line to the base hospital. All aspects of medical work are covered, including the prevention of disease, and the disposal and treatment of casualties. Harrison argues that the medical services played a major role in the Allied victory enabling the British Army to keep a higher proportion of troops in the field than its opponents. Assuming no previous knowledge of either medical or military history, Medicine and Victory provides an accessible introduction to a vitally important, yet too often neglected aspect of the Second World War.

Author : Ashley Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317374640

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The British Empire and the First World War by Ashley Jackson Pdf

The British Empire played a crucial part in the First World War, supplying hundreds of thousands of soldiers and labourers as well as a range of essential resources, from foodstuffs to minerals, mules, and munitions. In turn, many imperial territories were deeply affected by wartime phenomena, such as inflation, food shortages, combat, and the presence of large numbers of foreign troops. This collection offers a comprehensive selection of essays illuminating the extent of the Empire’s war contribution and experience, and the richness of scholarly research on the subject. Whether supporting British military operations, aiding the British imperial economy, or experiencing significant wartime effects on the home fronts of the Empire, the war had a profound impact on the colonies and their people. The chapters in this volume were originally published in Australian Historical Studies, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, First World War Studies or The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.