WW II Spy Novels discussion

Doubledf99.99, I just noticed that you and I are both reading this book:


Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton

...at the same time as myself! Great minds think alike, eh? (Or, did you start reading it because you saw me reading it? Yuh rascal!)

Anyway, I am placing you in our group 'Hot Seat' which means you have to tell us something about this book. No, no--don't try to get away. That door is bolted from the outside. You may as well tell us all we want to know because sooner or later everyone talks!

Here are our standard questions:


What made you choose this work?

What's it about?

Are you enjoying it?

What are you getting out of it?

Who wrote it?

Would you read more from this author?

1.Have been reading David Stahel's massive 4 volume work on the opening round on the Eastern Front, his latest book "The Battle for Moscow" references Creveld, on the massive logistic difficulties the Wehrmact faced.

2. Covers the logistical side of things from some fast moving armies from the 17th century, WWI, the Eastern Front, to D Day. Liked his chapters on WWI, the Schlieffen Plan, and laid the Wehrmact failure of supply out east directly on the OKH.

3. I've enjoyed the book immensely, and anyone who is interested in military history should give this a read.

4. That supplying Armies is a very tough job and no matter how well prepared you are things will go wrong and one must be very flexible.


5. Martin Van Crevald

6. Yes I would.

Should anyone be interested in reading David Stahel here they are.
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East
Kiev 1941
Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941
The Battle for Moscow
David Stahel