On the Road to Victory: The Rise of Motor Transport with the BEF on the Western Front

The Great War produced many innovations, in particular the spectacular development by the British and French armies of motor transport.

The age—old problem of moving soldiers and their supplies was no different in 1914 than it had been some 2,400 years ago, when the great Chinese military thinker Sun Tzu informed his readers that the further an army marched into enemy territory, the more the cost of transport increased, even to the point that more supplies were consumed by the transportation...