Fighting the people's war the British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War
"In citizen armies, it matters enormously that soldiers should, as Oliver Cromwell put it, know what they fight for and love what they know; the fundamentals of victory or defeat 'often have to be sought far from the battlefield, in political, social, and economic factors'. This study...
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New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2018
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| 505 | 0 | |a Inter-war -- Mobilisation -- Defeat in the West -- The Middle East -- The Far East -- The great imperial morale crisis -- Victory in North Africa -- New Guinea and Burma -- The Mediterranean -- Remobilisation -- Cassino -- Transformation in the jungle -- D-Day -- Normandy -- The victory campaigns -- Soldiers and social change | |
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