Publication

2019 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

241,500 words, Guess

Page Count

966 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781107030954
  • ISBN-101107030951
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018036916
  • OCLC Control Number1056201216
  • Better World Books9781107030954
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCD759.F39 2018
  • LCCD759 .F39 2019

Description

"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, a fighting force made up predominantly of contingents from Britain, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, explores not only the material culture and history of great armies in a world war, but also the political, social, and economic factors that influenced their behaviour and experience in the period running up to and during the largest conflagration of the twentieth century"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World WarCambridge University Press2019-01-01

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