Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War

Killingray, David, Plaut, Martin

ISBN 10: 1847010474 / ISBN 13: 9781847010476

Edité par James Currey, 2012

Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes). N° de réf. du vendeur 001504486N

Synopsis :

During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of the African experience of the war. It is a 'history from below' that describes how men were recruited for a war about which most knew very little.

Revue de presse: Sober and judicious but also thrilling and dramatic. --Africa

Will become the one-stop reference for research on Anglophone Africa and its soldiers during World War II. (...) Killingray succeeds in putting human faces on some of the nearly one million African soldiers who laboured and fought. --International Journal Of African Historical Studies

Will be the standard work on the subject for years, probably decades to come, an entirely fitting pedestal given David Killingray's leadership in this field. --International Affairs

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in ...
Éditeur : James Currey
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : paperback
Etat : New
Edition : Reprint.