Civilian Specialists at War

There is a well-known military adage, sometimes attributed to the Second World War US Army commander General Omar Bradley, that while ‘amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics’. When it comes to the First World War, however, in contrast to the widespread fascination and, above all, controversy associated with tactics and operations, the subject of military logistics, supplies and transportation has not generated the same amount of detailed scholarly interest. Christopher Phillips’s impressive debut, therefore, is an important, timely and very welcome addition to our knowledge and understanding of a neglected, though critical, aspect of Britain’s war effort. Based on Phillips’s 2015 University of Leeds Ph.D. thesis, the book is one of the first titles in the Royal Historical Society’s ‘New Historical Perspectives’ series, a print and Open Access publishing programme for early career researchers, published as an imprint of the Institute of Historical Research by the University of London Press

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