Combat Morale Podcast

S1E4 – Dr Jeff Rutherford – The Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front during WW2

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 01:07:00 GMT

Historian and author Dr Jeff Rutherford talks about the combat motivation of Wehrmacht soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front during WW2. The interview is based on Jeff’s recent book ‘Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front: The German Infantry's War, 1941–1944’ (Cambridge: CUP, 2014) that explores the combat experience and the occupation policies of three frontline infantry divisions. The interview covers the role of Nazi racial ideology and how this provided a legitimizing context in which violence was not only accepted but encouraged and it was the Wehrmacht's adherence to…

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S1E3 – Prof. Kelly Mezurek – African-American soldiers during the US Civil War

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 01:06:00 GMT

Prof. Kelly Mezurek, Professor of History at Walsh University, Ohio, USA, talks about her research into the motivations and morale of African-American soldiers during the US Civil War. The interviewed is based on Kelly’s on her book ‘For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops’ that explores the contribution black soldiers from Ohio made to the Union war effort during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The interview explores why black soldiers enlisted in the Union army and what factors motivated them to serve and endure on active service. Kelly’s…

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S1E2 – Dr Robert Engen – Canadian soldiers in the Second World War

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 01:04:00 GMT

Dr Robert Engen, Assistant professor at the Canadian Forces College and the official historian for Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, talks about the endurance and motivation of Canadian soldiers serving in northwest Europe during in the Second World War. Robert talks about the role of small group cohesion, junior regimental leadership and patriotism/ideology in motivating the Canadian infantryman to fight in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany in 1944-45. His conversation with Tom Thorpe is based on his recently published book. ‘Strangers in Arms’ (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press,…

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S1E1 – Dr Edward Burke – The British soldier in Northern Ireland, early 1970s

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 01:02:00 GMT

The first episode of the Combat Morale Podcast features an interview with Dr Edward Burke, Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. Edward talks about his book, ‘An Army of Tribes’, that explores the motivation, cohesion, efficiency, ethics and morale of the British soldier during the early stages of Operation Banner, the deployment of the British Army to Northern Ireland in the early 1970s. Published by Liverpool University Press.

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Trailer

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:50:59 GMT

Tom Thorpe, the founder and host, introduces the aims and objectives of the podcast.

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