Training the Troops: British and Commonwealth Armies, 1939-1945

在他未出版的自传中，刘易斯·欧文·莱恩少将讲述了1942年蒙哥马利将军在高级军官学校演讲的轶事。一位军官评论说，蒙哥马利的谈话与他挥舞的军事训练小册子上的内容相反，对此，蒙哥马利回答说，这本小册子是谁写的，他期待着战争结束后阅读陆军部制作的所有训练小册子。因此，本博士项目将在IWM和英国和英联邦的档案馆进行彻底的档案研究，以检查蒙哥马利的主题框架的有效性。为了实现这一目标，该研究项目着手了解英国和英联邦军队如何准备和训练，以打一场多战线的多国全球战争。本论文将首先记录战争部军事训练局的工作，该机构负责在英国军队中制作合适的理论和随后的训练小册子。然而，本论文也将具有跨国层面。这将是一个自上而下和自下而上的研究整个大英帝国和英联邦的训练，充分拥抱士兵的生活经验，无论他们来自，例如，英国，加拿大，印度或非洲。组织和理论框架。跨剧场学习。训练和战斗性能。训练的生活经验。

In his unpublished autobiography, Major General Lewis Owen Lyne recounts an anecdote about General Montgomery speaking at the Senior Officers' School in 1942. An officer commented that Montgomery's talk was the opposite to what was written in the military training pamphlet he was brandishing, to which Montgomery replied by asking who wrote the pamphlet and he looked forward to reading all the training pamphlets produced by the War Office once the war was over.This view of training in the British Army has persisted in the historiography. This PhD project will, therefore, carry out thorough archival research at the IWM and at archives across Britain and the Commonwealth to examine the validity ofMontgomery's framing of the subject.To achieve this end, the research project sets out to understand how the British and Commonwealth Armies prepared and trained to fight a multi-front multinational global war. The thesis will firstly document the work of the Directorate of Military Training at the War Office, which was responsible for producing suitable doctrine and the ensuing training pamphlets in the British Army. However, the thesis will also have a transnational dimension. It will be both a top down and a bottom up study of training across the British Empire and Commonwealth that fully embraces the lived experience of soldiers, whether they came from, for example, Britain, Canada, India or Africa.The thesis will pursue four key strands of enquiry:1. The Organisational and Doctrinal Framework.2. Inter-Theatre Learning.3. Training and Combat Performance.4. The Lived Experience of Training.