Inland Transport: Inland Transport in World War II (HMSO Offficial History of World War II - Civil)

This book - which is some way could be titled 'the History of the British Railways in World War II' is more or less a companion volume to 'Factories and Plant' .As with that book we see the detailled preparations being made for a war of national survival in the late 1930's

It came as a revelation to me that every major municipality in the UK was equiped and trained in the use of military assault bridging in 1938.

As ever, the illusion of 'appeasement' and the idea of World War II being a shock and surprise to the government is blown away. World War II was fought at a time and place of the British government's choosing - not Adolf Hitler's. All the books of the HMSO series tell this story.