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Raising Churchill's Army : the British Army and the War against Germany 1919-1945.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 theFirst World War, enthusiastically embracing technology as the best way of minimizing future casualties. In the first h. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (332 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780191542534 0191542539 |