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Operation PLUTO and redundant D-Day logistics

Recommended reading leads into the shipping, escort and unloading demands that a cross-Channel fuel pipeline could reduce.

Question

Can you recommend a good book about Operation PLUTO?

Short answer

The recommendations include a book recalled as The Sinews of War, a Haynes D-Day manual and an amphibious-assault collection. The precise bibliographic details remain uncertain.

Notes

A book recalled as The Sinews of War is recommended for a chapter on PLUTO, although several books share that title and the bibliographic details are recalled uncertainly. Other suggestions include a Haynes D-Day manual and a collection on amphibious assault. Judging the pipeline's value requires accounting for the ships, escorts, safe moorings and protected unloading capacity needed to replace it. A pipeline beneath the Channel presented a different interdiction problem from exposed shipping. Overlapping supply methods provided insurance for an operation whose logistics could not be allowed to fail. Success through other methods could leave one system less essential than planners had originally expected.