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The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900-1953. By Peter V Nash. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8130-3367-9. List of conversion tables. Illustrations. Maps. Diagrams. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xxiv, 320. $69.95.
It is unlikely that most participants in the underway replenishment operations of current navies might stop to wonder how such complicated but effective procedures evolved, but - when attention could shift from those tasks to a bit of research - this book surely would reward interested readers, and foster a broader appreciation of the vital place fleet logistics claims in modern naval history. In this concentrated study, author Peter Nash offers an engaging history distilled from his exhaustive mining of archives and published works alike, his in-depth interviews with principal figures in the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the U.S. Military Sealift Command, his on-board experiences in replenishment ships of both nations, his close attention to various replenishment protocols as they developed in each navy, and his ability to present convincingly the detailed essence...