Fighting Rommel: The British Imperial Army in North Africa during the Second World War, 1941?û1943 - Hardcover

Fighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not. Focusing on the learning cultures of the Eighth Army of the British Imperial Forces, it looks at the allied campaign during the Second World War in North Africa against the Afrika Korps of Rommel. The volume highlights the hitherto unexplored yet key role of the British Indian Army that included the largest volunteer force in the world. It also introduces the heuristic device of 'learning culture', that traces army culture is crucial for innovation and implementation on the battlefield in defeat as well as victory. It further brings together cultural and operational history of the British Imperial forces through the organizational culture of the Eighth Army. A major intervention in the study of the Second World War, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of military history, especially British and German, battlefield history and defence and strategic studies. history and defence and strategic studies.

• | Author: Kaushik Roy
• | Publisher: Routledge India
• | Publication Date: Sep 24, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 276 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0367265702
• | ISBN-13: 9780367265700