Half the battle : civilian morale in Britain during the Second World War
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Half the battle : civilian morale in Britain during the Second World War
Manchester University Press : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274) and index
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内容説明
How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressures of total war and what factors were important to it? This book rejects contentions that civilian morale fell a long way short of the favourable picture presented at the time and in hundreds of books and films ever since. While acknowledging that some negative attitudes and behaviour existed-panic and defeatism, ration-cheating and black-marketeering-it argues that these involved a very small minority of the population. In fact, most people behaved well, and this should be the real measure of civilian morale, rather than the failing of the few who behaved badly. The book shows that although before the war, the official prognosis was pessimistic, measures to bolster morale were taken nevertheless, in particular with regard to protection against air raids. An examination of indicative factors concludes that moral fluctuated but was in the main good, right to the end of the war. In examining this phenomenon, due credit is accorded to government policies for the maintenance of morale, but special emphasis is given to the 'invisible chain' of patriotic feeling that held the nation together during its time of trial. -- .
目次
- Part I: War imagined - the prospect of total war - again, a united nation?, preparing for the storm, the view from below
- war experienced September 1939-May 1941 - the phoney war, the emergency - May to September 1940, the big blitz
- war experienced 1941-45 - a different sort of war, separations, restrictions, restrictions, working and not working. Part II: persuading the people - controlling the news, the propaganda of reassurance, stimulating patriotism
- easing the strain - protection, food, the cost of living, working conditions, health, recreation and leisure, some essential inessentials
- Beveridge and all that - thinking about the future, the impact of Beveridge, another sign of the times? Conclusion - the invisible chain.
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