ISBN: 9780521192705

Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that ''the more fighting I see,… Mehr…

Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that ''the more fighting I see, the more I am convinced that the big thing in war is morale''. Jonathan Fennell, in examining the North African campaign through the lens of morale, challenges conventional explanations for Allied success in one of the most important and controversial campaigns in British and Commonwealth history. He introduces new sources, notably censorship summaries of soldiers'' mail, and an innovative methodology that assesses troop morale not only on the evidence of personal observations and official reports but also on contemporaneously recorded rates of psychological breakdown, sickness, desertion and surrender. He shows for the first time that a major morale crisis and stunning recovery decisively affected Eighth Army''s performance during the critical battles on the Gazala and El Alamein lines in 1942. | Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign by Jonathan Fennell Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > Military History P10103, Jonathan Fennell<

ISBN: 9780521192705

Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that ''the more fighting I see,… Mehr…

Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that ''the more fighting I see, the more I am convinced that the big thing in war is morale''. Jonathan Fennell, in examining the North African campaign through the lens of morale, challenges conventional explanations for Allied success in one of the most important and controversial campaigns in British and Commonwealth history. He introduces new sources, notably censorship summaries of soldiers'' mail, and an innovative methodology that assesses troop morale not only on the evidence of personal observations and official reports but also on contemporaneously recorded rates of psychological breakdown, sickness, desertion and surrender. He shows for the first time that a major morale crisis and stunning recovery decisively affected Eighth Army''s performance during the critical battles on the Gazala and El Alamein lines in 1942. | Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign by Jonathan Fennell Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Military P10103, Jonathan Fennell<

ISBN: 9780521192705

Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that ''the more fighting I see,… Mehr…

Military professionals and theorists have long understood the relevance of morale in war. Montgomery, the victor at El Alamein, said, following the battle, that ''the more fighting I see, the more I am convinced that the big thing in war is morale''. Jonathan Fennell, in examining the North African campaign through the lens of morale, challenges conventional explanations for Allied success in one of the most important and controversial campaigns in British and Commonwealth history. He introduces new sources, notably censorship summaries of soldiers'' mail, and an innovative methodology that assesses troop morale not only on the evidence of personal observations and official reports but also on contemporaneously recorded rates of psychological breakdown, sickness, desertion and surrender. He shows for the first time that a major morale crisis and stunning recovery decisively affected Eighth Army''s performance during the critical battles on the Gazala and El Alamein lines in 1942. Books > History > Military List_Books, [PU: Cambridge University Press]<

ISBN: 9780521192705

We have come through another great war and its reality is already cloaked in the mists of peace. In the course of that war we learned anew that man is supreme, that it is the soldier who … Mehr…

We have come through another great war and its reality is already cloaked in the mists of peace. In the course of that war we learned anew that man is supreme, that it is the soldier who fights who wins battles, that fighting means using a weapon, and that it is the heart of man which controls this use. (S. L. A. Marshall) On 20 October 1942, three days before the start of the battle of El Alamein, General Georg Stumme, in temporary command of the German and Italian Panzerarmee Afrika, informed his commanders that 'the enemy is by no means certain of victory. We must increase that uncertainty every day ... The feeling of complete moral superiority over the enemy must be awakened and fostered in every soldier, from the highest commander to the youngest man ... From this moral superiority comes coolness, confidence, self-reliance and an unshakeable will to fight. This is the secret to every victory.' -- Books, [PU: Cambridge University Press]<

2011, ISBN: 9780521192705

The Eighth Army and the Path to El Alamein, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Cambridge University Press, 2011