Civilian Specialists at War : Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Christopher.

Series:

New Historical Perspectives Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army. British Expeditionary Force--Transportation.

Great Britain.

World War, 1914-1918.

Logistics, Naval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (491 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War

Place of Publication:

London : Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Press, 2020.

London : University of London Press, 2020.

Summary:

The First World War was the first great conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods to the field of battle. This book analyses the multiple connections between the military, the government and the senior executives of some of pre-war Britain's largest companies, and shows how non-military expertise was deployed in the prosecution of war. Civilian Specialists at War reveals that Britain's transport experts were a key component in the country's conduct of the First World War.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

I. Preparation

1. Forging a relationship: the army, the government and Britain’s transport experts, 1825–1914

2. A fruitful collaboration: Henry Wilson, the railways and the British Expeditionary Force’s mobilization, 1910–14

II. Expansion

3. Stepping into their places: Britain’s transport experts and the expanding war, 1914–16

4. Commitment and constraint I: the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway and the port of Boulogne

5. Commitment and constraint II: Commander Gerald Holland and the role of inland water transport

6. The civilians take over? Sir Eric Geddes and the crisis of 1916

III. Armageddon

7. ‘By similar methods as adopted by the English railway companies’: materials and working practices on the western front, 1916–18

8. The balancing act: Britain’s transport experts, the global war effort and coalition warfare, 1916–18

9. The road to victory: transportation in the British Expeditionary Force, 1917–18

10. Conclusion

Appendix I: Information requested by the secretary of state for war from the transportation mission led by Sir Eric Geddes, August 1916

Appendix II: Instructions issued to General Nash, 10 January 1918

Bibliography

Index

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ISBN:

1-909646-92-X

1-909646-91-1

OCLC:

1166293927