Fighting the people's war : the British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War / Jonathan...
Fighting the people's war : the British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War / Jonathan...
Fighting the people's war : the British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War / Jonathan Fennell.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2019/1330
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxxii, 932 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 --...
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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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,...
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Fighting the people's war : the British and Commonwealth armies and the Second World War / Jonathan Fennell.
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Armies of the Second World War
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/1330
Record Identifier
74VKVyygzaWX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVyygzaWX
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ISBN
1107030951 hardcover
9781107030954 hardcover
DDC
940.541241
MMS ID
991024235801302626
