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Combat and morale in the North African campaign : the Eighth Army and the path to El Alamein

Fennell, Jonathan, 1979-

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\"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 the censorship summaries of the soldiers' mail, and an innovative methodology for assessing the impact of morale on rates of psychological breakdown, sickness, desertion and surrender. As a result he is able to show for the first time that a major morale crisis and stunning recovery decisively affected the Eighth Army's performance during the critical battles on the Gazala and El Alamein lines in 1942\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Great Britain. Army. Army, Eighth. / World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Africa, North. / El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942. / World War, 1939-1945 Psychological aspects. / Morale. / Combat Psychological aspects. / Psychology, Military.
• ISBN: 9780521192705, 0521192706, 60001331820, 0133182002

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D766.82.F46 2010	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE