Description: A penetrating and refreshing analysis of the contribution of military and commercial logistics to the operations of the BEF on the Western Front.
Brief description: Clem Maginniss was born in Coventry and educated at Ratcliffe College Leicester and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Modern European History and International Relations from the University of Warwick. He served for 40 years in the Regular Army, the Territorial Army and the Army Reserve, first in the Royal Corps of Transport and then the Royal Logistic Corps. A graduate of the Army Staff College Camberley, he has held a range of fascinating National, NATO and United Nations appointments involving mobilization planning, railway operations, medical logistics, combat engineer support, tank transporting, officer training, flood relief, infrastructure development, estate management, humanitarian assistance and the Foreign Office. He has written extensively for the British Army Review and the Royal Logistic Corps Review on logistic history, doctrine, operations and equipment but An Unappreciated Field of Endeavour is his first book. His interests are Great and Second World War military and naval logistics, underwater exploration, ship-wreck research, defence archaeology, railway heritage, keeping fit and a range of outdoor pursuits. He lives in Norfolk with his wife Edwina.
Review Quotes: "Although this book should be mandatory reading for all military logisticians of the twenty first century there is much here to fascinate the more general student of military history and as General Jacko Page, a distinguished operational commander of modern times, says in his forward "..... without the logisticians' dedicated labours an army will not long endure.""-- "The Military Historical Society Bulletin"