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Useless Mouths - The British Army's Battles in France After Dunkirk May-June 1940 (Hardcover)
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Useless Mouths - The British Army's Battles in France After Dunkirk May-June 1940 (Hardcover)
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This books looks of the British Army's supply service, how it
developed, and how it failed - especially in the Crimea War - and
how reforms in the 19th century reformed it. It examines how the
lines of communication functioned during WW1 and the strains on it
during the March 1918 German offensive. The focus of the book looks
at the developments in the interwar years, and how it functioned
during the French Campaign of May/June 1940. The role of the LOC
after the German breakthrough in France has been underestimated and
under reported. This part of the British Army performed well in
difficult circumstances but individual efforts could not compensate
for the woeful lack of organisation, equipment and training, nor
that few if any senior officers had either experience or training
to carry out the posts they occupied. Only the fortuitous
mechanisation of the general transport system of the Army, not due
to doctrine or foresight but a dearth of horses in the civil
economy, enabled the Army to retreat faster and further than their
horse bound allies - the French - and enemies - the Germans. There
was bloody-mindedness on the part of the regimental officers and
rank and file soldiers to do their best in difficult circumstances.
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