Civilian Specialists at War

The First World War was the first great conflict to be fought between highly industrial societies able to manufacture and transport immense quantities of goods to the field of battle. This book analyses the multiple connections between the military, the government and the senior executives of some of pre-war Britain’s largest companies, and shows how non-military expertise was deployed in the prosecution of war. Civilian Specialists at War reveals that Britain’s transport experts were a key component in the country’s conduct of the First World War.