Raising Churchill's Army
The British Army and the War against Germany 1919-1945
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 July 2001
- ISBN 9780199246304
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 235x156x18 mm
- Weight 515 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War. It sweeps away the myth that the army suffered from poor morale, and that it only won its battles through the use of 'brute force' and by reverting to the techniques of the First World War. Few soldiers were actively eager to close with the enemy, but the morale of the army never collapsed and its combat capability steadily improved from 1942 onwards.
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This is the first serious analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War. It sweeps away the myth that the army suffered from poor morale, and that it only won its battles through the use of 'brute force' and by reverting to the techniques of the First World War. David French analyses the place of the army in British interwar strategy and during the Second World War. He shows that after 1918 the General Staff tried hard to learn the lessons of the First World War, enthusiastically embracing technology as the best way of minimizing future casualties. In the first half of the Second World War the army did suffer from manifold weaknesses, not just in the form of shortages of equipment, but also in the way in which it applied its doctrine. Few soldiers were actively eager to close with the enemy, but the morale of the army never collapsed and its combat capability steadily improved from 1942 onwards. Professor French assesses Montgomery's contributions to the war effort and concludes the most important were his willingness to impose a uniform understanding of doctrine on his subordinates, and to use mechanized firepower in ways quite different from Haig in the First World War.
arresting new study ... a bold book - the boldness of its conception too easily taken for granted - as stimulating and discriminating as anything in the field since the iconoclastic Firepower: British Army Weapons and Theories of War 1904-1945 (1982) by Shelford Bidwell and Dominick Graham ... His work is a comprehensive exercise in ground-clearing, and a searching assessment of each element of fighting power ... It is a noble calling, and it makes a convincing book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
'How Are You to Succeed without Causing Losses?': Doctrine and Organization, 1919-1939
Regimental Officers and the Rank and File
Weapons and Equipment
Discipline and Morale
The Pre-War Army and the British Expeditionary Force
The Reformation of the Army, Home Forces, 1940-1943
The Desert War, 1940-1942
Monty's Army: Alam Halfa to the Rhine
Conclusion
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