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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Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
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2019
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| Schriftenreihe: | Armies of the Second World War
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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"... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxxii, 932 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781107030954 |
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| adam_text | 8717 List of Illustrations List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Overview of Maps page xi xiii xv xxii xxiv xxix xxxiii Introduction Part 1 The Military and Political Context 1 Interwar Materiel and Manpower Doctrine Training and Organisation Politics and Public Morale Structure and Contingency 2 Mobilisation The Political Context Mobilisation Equality of Sacrifice? The Social Contract Rhetoric and Reality Part II The Great Crisis of Empire 3 Defeat in the West The ‘Phoney War’ The Norwegian Campaign The Battle of France Assessments and Recriminations Preparing for Invasion 23 23 23 32 36 39 49 52 53 63 81 89 91 95 95 95 99 100 108 115
viii / Contents 4 The Middle East Operation‘Compass’ From East Africa to the Balkans The Battle for Crete Strategic Overstretch Operation ‘Crusader’ Spring 1942. Gazala The July Battles 5 The Far East 6 145 155 158 176 183 183 187 193 2.00 204 209 214 The Great Imperial Morale Crisis 21Ճ 216 227 229 254 Partili Transformation Victory in North Africa No Retreat Alam Haifa Colossal Cracks War Office Initiatives El Álaméin The Tunisian Campaign 8 119 123 13 2 141 The Strategic Context Preparations The Malaya Campaign The Invasion of Burma The Fall of Singapore Retreat to India The Cost of Failure The Anatomy of Defeat Morale Crisis The Ideological Deficit The Soldier and the State 7 117 New Guinea and Burma The ‘Battle for Australia’ Kokoda Wau Quit India The Arakan շ57 257 257 262 267 269 291 304 310 310 3x7 322 326 3 29
ix / Contents Part IV The Limits of Attrition 9 The Mediterranean Strategy and Preparation The Sicilian Campaign Opportunity Lost The Invasion of Italy Advance to the ‘Gustav Line’ Winter in Italy IO Remobilisation? The British Army and the Beveridge Report The New Zealand Furlough Mutiny The UDF and the ‘Blue Oath’ Procedural Justice 11 Cassino Anzio and the First Battle of Cassino The Second Battle of Cassino The Third Battle of Cassino The Fourth Battle of Cassino (Operation ‘Diadem’) 12 Transformation in the Jungle Training and Doctrine Institutional Reform The South-West Pacific Area Operation ‘Postern’ Burma Second Arakan Imphal and Köhima Turn Around Part V Redemption 13 D-Day Training and Doctrine Selection and Morale The Assault Controversy 14 Normandy The Battle for Caen Operation ‘Goodwood’ 337 337 337 341 345 3 51 355 360 367 372 3 79 390 396 398 398 405 406 422 434 434 442 450 453 459 461 465 469 471 471 473 479 486 498 503 506 519
15 Breakout Encirclement The Trap 530 539 545 The Victory Campaigns 551 555 561 566 580 591 595 Operation ‘Market Garden’ Operation Olive’ Manpower Crisis The Scheldt and the ‘Siegfried Line’ Operational and Tactical Transformations Victory in Italy The Surrender of Germany The South-West Pacific Area Burma Operations ‘Capital’ and ‘Extended Capital’ Part VI The Post-War World 16 Soldiers and Social Change From Combat Cohesion to Social Cohesion The Forces Vote and the 1945 British General Election The Forces Vote and New Zealand’s Great Experiment in Social Citizenship The Forces Vote and the Formalisation of Apartheid in South Africa Soldiers, Veterans and the Partition of India Soldiers, Veterans and Social Change Conclusion A Deficit of Political Legitimacy Military Performance Consequences Fighting the People’s War Appendix i The Censorship Summaries Appendix 2 The Morale Reports Appendix 3 Quantitative Indicators of Morale Appendix 4 Defining Morale Notes Select Bibliography Index 601 608 614 620 6z7 627 629 634 646 651 667 674 678 679 683 690 69 5 698 702 704 707 709 861 899
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