Combat and Morale in North African Campaign: The Eighth Army
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,n