A most important contribution to the history of the war on the Western Front, describing the vital part played by transportation - railways, roads, clocks and canals. It reveals some of the main transport questions that arose and the organisation that was set up to deal with them, an organisation that combined a number of services into one single one called Transportation, under a Director General the first and best known of whom was a civilian railway manager sent out to France and given the honorary rank of Major General, Sir Eric Geddes.
| Author: Colonel Am Henniker |
| Publisher: Naval & Military Press |
| Publication Date: May 07, 2013 |
| Number of Pages: 604 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1845747658 |
| ISBN-13: 9781845747657 |