Books about rebuilding Germany after WW2 (and general war logistics)?

by manInTheWoods

I'm interested in more info on how the rebuidling of Germany (e.g. Berlin) was handled from a practical point of view. The organization, the details. Who did what, etc. Any books to recommend?

And also general logistics, I'm planing to start with "Supplying War", but if you know of anything else, please enlighten me. Preferrably WW2 (or newer).

Badgerfest

Supplying War is a great place to start. For more recent logistics Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War is good. Whilst doing my MSc research I found very few good books specifically considering military logistics, and had to rely on picking the logistics elements out of more generic works.

Interesting case studies include:

  • The Shells Crisis of 1915, recounted in detail by R J Q Adams in Arms and the Wizard: Lloyd George and the Ministry of Munitions, 1915-16 and The Great Munition Feat by G A B Dewar.

  • Support to the XIV Army in Burma, recounted in Field Marshal Slim's Defeat Into Victory, which is incidentally one of the greatest WWII memoirs, and Slim: Master of War by Robert Lyman amongst others.

seewolfmdk

Since most german men were dead or imprisoned, the women did a big part of the rebuliding. They became famous under the term "Trümmerfrauen".