Dworak's work is the first to analyze the crucial aspect of fighting in the Mediterranean: logistics. A book for operators, scholars, and buffs alike, War of Supply reminds us of the timeless dominance of logistics over even the simplest wartime stratagem or maneuver.
~Robert M. Citino, executive director of the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy and the Samuel Zemurray Stone Senior Historian at The National WWII Museum
A major contribution to the study of World War II logistics in an often-overlooked but vitally important theater of war. Dworak details the logistical challenges faced by the American forces in the Mediterranean and how the logisticians at all levels learned through difficult experience how to supply an army far from the United States. The lessons learned in the Mediterranean campaigns of 1942–1944 greatly contributed to logistical success in Northwest Europe in the final year of the war.
~Steve R. Waddell, author of United States Army Logistics: From the American Revolution to 9/11
As Napoleon said, victory goes to the big battalions. But how to get the necessary supplies—food, ammunition, fuel, spare parts, equipment of every kind, medical supplies, and a lot more—to the battalions that need them? In this outstanding book, Colonel (ret) Dworak, himself a former logistician, seeks to answer that question in relation to the Mediterranean Front during World War II—and does so in a way that will surely interest professionals and laymen alike.
~Martin van Creveld, author of Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton
This is an outstanding work on the crucial importance of logistics in war. Its focus on how the Allies transformed an uncoordinated, under-resourced, inefficient, and ineffective logistical effort in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) into a highly flexible, efficient, and effective one is instructive on many levels. The author illustrates how these logistical efforts served as learning laboratories for logisticians and the combat commanders they supported, why the iterative improvements they facilitated were so important, and how these underpinned every future Allied success in Europe. This book is exceptionally useful for all military and logistics professionals and for the operational commanders, combat forces, and staff planners who rely on them.
~Robert S. Ehlers, Jr., author of The Mediterranean Air War: Airpower and Allied Victory in World War II
The author does an excellent job of bringing light to the names and faces of the senior logisticians and base section commanders (p. 4) who did the hard work in this theater of operations... For both scholars of the military art and those interested in a deeper delve into the Mediterranean Theater of Operations during World War II, Dworak's book is a worthy addition to the existing body of literature.
~Timothy M. Gilhool, U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command Fort Lee, Virginia, Journal of Military History
Recipient of the Silver Award in War & Military (Adult Nonfiction) - 2022 Foreword Reviews' INDIES Book Award
(Dworak) tells his story vividly, with a number of telling examples, and some biographical information about the US generals actually operating the supply and support systems around the Mediterranean. A good book which places the operations described and the logistics to support them in proper perspective.
~International Journal of Military History and Historiography
Recipient of the Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book Prize in Military History This comprehensive, balanced, and clearly written history focuses on the Allied logistical support for the amphibious landings and subsequent ground campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Southern France. Relevant archival and secondary sources, maps, and tables complement the tightly organized and well-argued text. The author... speaks with authority on this often-overlooked subject (and) demonstrates convincingly that learning from both successes and failures in the Mediterranean campaigns, the Allies developed a logistical process that determined the right mix of combat and support forces for seizing invasion beaches and sustaining the movement forward of the fighting forces.
