Reddit reviews The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author

Recommended read: https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691170819/

Sure, it's The Box by Marc Levinson. The connection to WW2 is that the earliest container ships like the SS Ideal X were converted WW2 tankers and general cargo ships. Then one of the main driving forces for containerization in the 1960s was Malcom McLean's Sea-Land Service, which had a contract to carry military supplies to Vietnam, and more generally to help un-fuck the terrible logistics problems the US military was having at the time getting supplies through Vietnamese ports. In the early 1970s, McLean commissioned 8 extremely fast container ships with the idea that faster delivery speed would help Sea-Land compete in the civilian market, which was just starting to open up to Japan and China. Fast ships burn a lot of fuel though, and unfortunately they came into service just as the Oil Crisis struck. Sea-Land eventually went bankrupt and was acquired by Maersk, and the fast container ships were purchased by the US Navy, militarized, and became the Algol-class Fast Sealift Ships. They are brought in and out of service as needed due to their high operating costs, but notably they ran 13% of the total cargo to the Middle East during the first Gulf War, so that's the connection there.

This book is a good introduction to the growth of containerization and aimed at a general audience.

If you want a classic example, use the shipping industry.

I can also recommend this book