Summary The Invisible Army - Horse drawn armies in the age of the motor vehicle Part of Animals at War Week - co hosted by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson. In today's show we will actually go right back to the earliest uses of powered vehicles and look at how Armies in the 19th Century tackled the problems of logistics. From Wellington to the Army of the Potomac we will look at how horse-drawn transport has been developed and utilised. We will then continue to the prolific use horses by the Third Reich and Soviet Red Army, as well as looking at Lend-Lease and the universal themes of speed and reliability when comparing methods of transport. Our guest is H.G.W. Davie from the Department of History, Politics and War Studies at University of Wolverhampton. His current area of study is Supply and Transport in the Soviet Army during the Russo-German War 1941-5 and has drawn on Russian and German sources. H. G. W. Davie - Studies in Military Transport, Supply and Logistics.

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