The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services, Volumes I & II (United States Army in World War II: The Technical Services, Quartermaster Corps Volumes 1 & 2))

Complete in two volumes. Part of a larger set of works on the Quartermaster Corps, which itself is part of an overarching history of the United States in World War II. xvi, 418; xiv, 433 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 19 tables, 14 charts, 55 illustrations, bibliographical notes, glossaries, and indexes. "These two volumes show that the Quartermaster Corps was unprepared for this staggering task, partly because of financial starvation, partly from lack of vision and flexibility, large because of demands that could not be anticipated... These volumes describe the vigor, ingenuity, and resourcefulness with which the Quartermaster General and his corps attacked a bewildering variety of tasks and emphasize failures as well as successes... [They] also detail the cooperation of American industry with the Army on a vast scale. The Quartermaster General engaged over two hundred firms in tasks of research and development and covered a larger sector of the normal civilian economy in procuring supplies needed by the Army than did any other service." (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 117-8).