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100 1 Fennell, Jonathan,|d1979-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/no2008090976
245 10 Combat and morale in the North African campaign :|bthe
Eighth Army and the path to El Alamein /|cJonathan
Fennell.
264 1 Cambridge ;|aNew York :|bCambridge University Press,
|c[2011]
264 4 |c©2011
300 1 online resource (xix, 341 pages) :|billustrations, maps.
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490 1 Cambridge military histories
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-332) and
index.
505 0 Introduction -- Morale crisis and recovery -- Technology,
firepower and morale -- Quality of manpower and morale --
Environment, provisions and morale -- Welfare, education
and morale -- Leadership, command and morale -- Training
and morale -- In search of a theory to explain combat
morale in the desert -- Conclusion.
520 "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"--|cProvided by publisher.
520 "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' "--|cProvided by publisher.
588 0 Print version record.
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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610 10 Great Britain.|bArmy.|bArmy, Eighth.|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n83049947
610 17 Great Britain.|bArmy.|bArmy, Eighth.|2fast|0https://
id.worldcat.org/fast/580455
647 7 Battle of El Alamein|c(Egypt :|d1942)|2fast|0https://
id.worldcat.org/fast/904131
647 7 World War|d(1939-1945)|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast
/1180924
648 7 1939-1945|2fast
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xCampaigns|zAfrica, North.|0https://
id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148301
650 0 El Alamein, Battle of, Egypt, 1942.|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/subjects/sh85003125
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xPsychological aspects.|0https://
id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148482
650 0 Morale.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
sh85087205
650 0 Combat|xPsychological aspects.|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/subjects/sh85028793
650 0 Psychology, Military.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
subjects/sh85108477
650 7 Psychological aspects.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast
/1354086
650 7 Morale.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1026093
650 7 Combat|xPsychological aspects.|2fast|0https://
id.worldcat.org/fast/868934
650 7 Psychology, Military.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
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655 4 Electronic books.
776 08 |iPrint version:|aFennell, Jonathan, 1979-|tCombat and
morale in the North African campaign.|dCambridge, UK ; New
York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, ©2011
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