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Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944 - From Dunkirk to D-Day (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Military Training in the British Army, 1940-1944 - From Dunkirk to D-Day (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Military History and Policy
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Between 1940 and 1944, although large numbers of British troops
battled around the littorals of the Mediterranean and Burma, most
of the British Army bided its time at home. Between Dunkirk and
D-Day, those troops lived in a grey area, neither fully at peace
nor properly at war. While they trained under virtually peacetime
conditions, their colleagues overseas were gaining up-to-date
battle experience. The lessons from that experience should have
made the troops who crossed the Channel in summer 1944 the most
thoroughly prepared soldiers ever to go into their first battle.
Sadly, the results in Normandy confounded any such expectations, as
in battle after battle the combat effectiveness of British troops,
particularly infantry and armour, proved weak.
In this study, Timothy Harrison Place traces the reasons for the
British Army's tactical weakness in Normany to flaws in its
training in Britain. The armour suffered from a failure fully to
disseminate the lessons of experience in the Mediterranean theatres
to troops training at home. Disagreements between General
Montgomery and the War Office over basic doctrine for the
employment of armour exacerbated matters. The infantry, meanwhile,
failed to apply the lessons learned on the Western Front a
generation before. They trained according to the habits of 1916,
and, despite the efforts of some among their number, the British
Army never fully recovered from that error.
This book paints a picture of an untried British Army working hard
to learn its trade. Oblivious to the fact that it was always one
step behind the enemy, this was an army cruelly let down by poor
direction from the top.
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