2 docs tagged with "logistics"

This book systematically cuts through all the bravado and battlefield-centric focus of World War 2 history and focuses on the things that mattered Manufacturing, logistics, and control over the air-sea theatre. It also provides insight into how the leaders of both the Axis powers as well as the Allies thought and how they argued against themselves, for better or worse.

This book contains the story of the container. It describes how it was first implemented, why it worked, and how the different actors behaved about the new innovation. The container shaped international trade more than anything else in the 20th century, and this is the story of how it came to be.