Global Logistics and Strategy, 1943-1945 (United States Army in World War II: The War Department, Volume 6)

xxiii, 889 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 34 tables, 5 charts, 8 maps, 49 illustrations, 8 appendices, bibliographical note, glossaries, and index. "Like its predecessor, Global Logistics and Strategy: 1940-1943, this volume treats U.S. Army logistics from the point of view of the high command and staffs in Washington; it continues the preceding volume's narrative from the spring of 1943, on the eve of the Trident Conference in May, to the surrender of Japan... The book focuses on the myriad problems involved during the last two years of World War II in the division of resources among nations and theaters in a global conflict and on the logistical organization and processes involved in the formation and execution of strategy (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 12-14). Includes discussion of strategic-logistical planning for the cross-Channel invasion, the invasion of Sicily, Allied operations in the Mediterranean, the China-Burma-India Theater, pooling and allocating munitions, military lend-lease, ocean shipping, etc.