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Fighting the people's war : the British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War
- Title
- Fighting the people's war : the British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War / Jonathan Fennell.
- Author
- Fennell, Jonathan, 1979-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xxxii, 932 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Armies of the Second World War
- Uniform Title
- Armies of the Second World War (Cambridge (England))
- Subjects
- Great Britain
- Commonwealth countries
- Soldiers
- Social change
- Great Britain > Army
- Social change > History > 20th century
- Social aspects
- Great Britain > Army > History > World War, 1939-1945
- Military campaigns
- Commonwealth countries > Armed Forces > History > World War, 1939-1945
- Armed Forces
- History
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns
- World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects
- Soldiers > Commonwealth countries > History > 20th century
- 1900-1999
- World War (1939-1945)
- Soldiers > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6060
- ISBN
- 9781107030954
- 1107030951
- LCCN
- 2018036916
- 40028945632
- OCLC
- 1056201216
- Author
- Fennell, Jonathan, 1979- author.
- Title
- Fighting the people's war : the British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War / Jonathan Fennell.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Armies of the Second World WarArmies of the Second World War (Cambridge (England))
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028945632
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6060