Format:
xxxii, 932 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781107030954
Series Statement:
Armies of the Second World War
Content:
"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 of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War, a fighting force made up predominantly of contingents from Britain, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, explores not only the material culture and history of great armies in a world war, but also the political, social, and economic factors that influenced their behaviour and experience in the period running up to and during the largest conflagration of the twentieth century"--
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Fennell, Jonathan, 1979 - Fighting the people's war Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781139380881
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Commonwealth
;
Armee
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
