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Half the battle : civilian morale in Britain during the Second World War / Robert Mackay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackay, Robert, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--1918-1945.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 282 pages) : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressure of total war and what factors were important to it? Rejecting contentions that morale fell short of the favourable picture presented during World War II and since, this work shows how government policies for maintaining morale were put in place.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. War imagined
- 2. War experienced: September 1939-May 1941
- 3 .War experienced: 1941-45
- 4. Persuading the people
- 5. Easing the strain
- 6. Beveridge and all that
- Conclusion The invisible chain
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610733996
- 9781781700143
- 1781700141
- 9781280733994
- 1280733993
- 9781847790200
- 1847790208
- 9781417574766
- 1417574763
- OCLC:
- 437158001
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