Morale and Combat Performance: An Introduction

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Notes

¹ John Keegan, The Face of Battle (London: Cape 1976); Paul Kennedy, ‘History from the Middle: The Case of the Second World War’, Journal of Military History 74 (Jan. 2010), 35.

² See for example: Paul Addison and Angus Calder (eds), Time to Kill: The Soldier’s Experience of War in the West 1939–1945 (London: Vintage 1997); John Ellis, The Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II (London: Pimlico 1993; first published 1980); Omer Bartov, The Eastern Front, 1941–45: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare (Oxford: OUP 1985); John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (London: Faber 1986); Gerald F. Linderman, The World Within War: American Combat Experience in World War II (London: Free 1997); Sam C. Sarkesian (ed.), Combat Effectiveness: Cohesion, Stress, and the Volunteer Military (London: Sage 1980); Catherine Merridale, Ivan’s War: The Red Army 1939–45 (London: Faber 2005); Mark Johnston, Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II (Cambridge: CUP 2000); The ‘Combat Morale’ Special Edition of the Journal of Contemporary History 41/2 (2006).

³ See, for example, David French, ‘“Tommy is No Soldier”: The Morale of the Second British Army in Normandy, June–August 1944’, Journal of Strategic Studies 19/4 (1996), 154–178; John Buckley, British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944 (Abingdon: Routledge 2004), Chapter Eight.

⁴ S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War (New York: Morrow 1966), 23.