The consistent narrative that emerges from the research presented in this book is that success in battle is significantly influenced by morale, the soldier's willingness, engendered by desire or discipline, to prepare for and engage in the actions required by the military. However, morale is fragile and fluid, and needs to be nurtured and developed for armies to prevail. This book has examined the North African campaign of the Second World War through the lens of morale and has shown how the morale of the troops was reflected in the performance of Eighth Army on the battlefield, from the WDF's victory over the Italians in 1940/41, to the crisis in the summer of 1942 that nearly cost Eighth Army the desert war, to the resurgence that ultimately led to victory at El Alamein.