Transportation on the Western Front 1914-18. OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR.

A most important contribution to the history of the war on the Western Front describing the vital part played by transportation - railways roads clocks and canals. It reveals some of the main transport questions that arose and the organisation that was set up to deal with them an organisation that combined a number of services into one single one called Transportation under a Director General the first and best known of whom was a civilian railway manager sent out to France and given the honorary rank of Major General Sir Eric Geddes.