TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Creveld,Martin
TI  - Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton 
SN  - 052121730X
AV  - U168 .V26
PY  - 1980///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Logistics
KW  - History
KW  - Military art and science
KW  - Military history, Modern
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index; 1. The background of two centuries -- The tyranny of plunder -- Rise of the magazine system -- The age of linear warfare -- 'An umbilical cord of supply'? -- 2. "An army marches on its stomach!' -- The end of siege warfare -- Boulogne to Austerlitz -- Many roads to Moscow -- 3. When demigods rode rails -- Supply from Napoleon to Moltke -- A joker in the pack -- Railways againt [sic] France -- Logistics of the armed horde -- Did wheels roll for victory? -- 4. The wheel that broke -- State of the art -- Logistics of the Schlieffen plan -- The plan modified -- Logistics during the campaign of the Marne -- State of the railroads -- Strength and reinforcement of the right wing -- 5. Russian roulette -- Problems of the semi-motorized army -- Planning for 'Barbarossa' -- Leningrad and the Dnieper -- 'Storm to the gates of Moscow'? -- 6. Sirte to Alamein -- Desert complications -- Rommel's first offensive -- 1942: Annus Mirabilis -- Supply and operations in Africa -- 7. War of the accountants -- The pitfalls of planning -- Normandy to the Seine -- 'Broad front' or 'knifelike thrust'? -- 8. Logistics in perspective
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