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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Maps
  9. Introduction
  10. I. Preparation
    1. 1. Forging a relationship: the army, the government and Britain’s transport experts, 1825–1914
    2. 2. A fruitful collaboration: Henry Wilson, the railways and the British Expeditionary Force’s mobilization, 1910–14
  11. II. Expansion
    1. 3. Stepping into their places: Britain’s transport experts and the expanding war, 1914–16
    2. 4. Commitment and constraint I: the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway and the port of Boulogne
    3. 5. Commitment and constraint II: Commander Gerald Holland and the role of inland water transport
    4. 6. The civilians take over? Sir Eric Geddes and the crisis of 1916
  12. III. Armageddon
    1. 7. ‘By similar methods as adopted by the English railway companies’: materials and working practices on the western front, 1916–18
    2. 8. The balancing act: Britain’s transport experts, the global war effort and coalition warfare, 1916–18
    3. 9. The road to victory: transportation in the British Expeditionary Force, 1917–18
    4. 10. Conclusion
  13. Appendix I: Information requested by the secretary of state for war from the transportation mission led by Sir Eric Geddes, August 1916
  14. Appendix II: Instructions issued to General Nash, 10 January 1918
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index

Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

I. Preparation

1. Forging a relationship: the army, the government and Britain’s transport experts, 1825–1914

2. A fruitful collaboration: Henry Wilson, the railways and the British Expeditionary Force’s mobilization, 1910–14

II. Expansion

3. Stepping into their places: Britain’s transport experts and the expanding war, 1914–16

4. Commitment and constraint I: the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway and the port of Boulogne

5. Commitment and constraint II: Commander Gerald Holland and the role of inland water transport

6. The civilians take over? Sir Eric Geddes and the crisis of 1916

III. Armageddon

7. ‘By similar methods as adopted by the English railway companies’: materials and working practices on the western front, 1916–18

8. The balancing act: Britain’s transport experts, the global war effort and coalition warfare, 1916–18

9. The road to victory: transportation in the British Expeditionary Force, 1917–18

10. Conclusion

Appendix I: Information requested by the secretary of state for war from the transportation mission led by Sir Eric Geddes, August 1916

Appendix II: Instructions issued to General Nash, 10 January 1918

Bibliography

Index

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