Supplying the British Army in the First World War

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 carrie...