LEADER 03063nam 22005773 450 001 996543166903316 005 20230616171343.0 010 $a1-84779-535-8 010 $a1-5261-3742-9 024 7 $a10.7765/9781526137425 035 $a(CKB)4340000000256174 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5121067 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5121067 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL73399 035 $a(OCoLC)1027160924 035 $a(DE-B1597)658889 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526137425 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000256174 100 $a20210901d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHalf the battle $ecivilian morale in Britain during the Second World War /$fRobert Mackay 210 1$aManchester :$cManchester University Press,$d2003. 210 4$dİ2003. 215 $a1 online resource (289 pages) 311 $a0-7190-5894-5 330 $aHow well did civilian morale stand up to the pressures of total war and what factors were important to it? In this important work, Robert Mackay offers a robust rejection of recent 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. Whilst acknowledging that some negative attitudes and behaviours existed - panic and defeatism, ration-cheating and black-marketeering, looting, absenteeism and strikes - the author 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 failings of the few who behaved badly.This book shows that before the War the official prognosis was pessimistic but that measures to bolster morale were taken nevertheless, in particular with regard to protection against air raids. An examination of a range of indicative factors concludes that morale fluctuated but was in the main good, right until the end of the War. In explaining 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.This book will give students of the Second World War new insights into how and why ordinary people coped with the intolerable. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 610 $aair raids. 610 $ablack-marketeering. 610 $acivilian morale. 610 $adefeatism. 610 $agovernment policies. 610 $anation. 610 $apanic. 610 $apatriotic feeling. 610 $aration-cheating. 610 $atotal war. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects 676 $a941.084 700 $aMackay$b Robert$f1940-$0767462 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996543166903316 996 $aHalf the battle$91997282 997 $aUNISA