Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume I [1]: May 1941 - September 1944 (United States Army in World War II: The European Theater of Operations Volume 9)

xviii, 616 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 27 maps, 92 illustrations, 2 appendices, bibliographical note, glossaries, and index. "...the keystone rather than the capstone of the subseries. Relating the story of the campaigns and the decisions of higher commanders to the tyranny which logistics exercises on their conduct, it discusses tremendous materiel buildup in the United Kingdom preceding D-day, the logistical aspects of the invasion, and the effect of pursuit warfare on the Allied logistical structure. Volume I ends with the termination of pursuit in mid-September 1944..." (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 70-85).