A Great Feat of Improvisation : Helion & Company : 9781913336158 : 1913336158 : 15 Jun 2021 : A Great Feat of Improvisation redresses the long-standing lacuna in the historiography of the BEF: logistics. Wide ranging in reach, comprehensive in scope and meticulously researched, it lucidly demonstrates, through description and analysis, not only the importance of logistics to military operations during the campaign but provides fresh evidence and analysis on the deployment sustainment, operations and evacuation of the BEF in the period 1939-1940.A Great Feat of Improvisation examines how pre-war strategic, economic, political and defense dynamics influenced the plans to generate and deploy the BEF, before assessing how the logistic challenges were met. Many aspects of the BEF's logistic operations are described and analyzed, including the development of the BEF's Wheeled Motor Transport capability, the establishment and expansion of the Base, the role of military and commercial railways