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Based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, this book describes the African experience of the Second World War, from recruitment, through active service in theatres including Burma and Abyssinia, to demobilization.
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It is a pleasure to turn the pages of this new book. For those who know Killingray's work, it will be regarded as a fitting summation, a single volume that distils over 30 years of scholarship into a detailed and highly accessible form. For those new to the subject matter, the volume offers an incomparable access point, allowing them to pursue their studies through the extensive bibliography and the themes that the book divides the subject into. (...) 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
Sober and judicious but also thrilling and dramatic. --Africa, vol. 81, no. 2, 2011
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, 2011
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Sober and judicious but also thrilling and dramatic. --Africa, vol. 81, no. 2, 2011
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, 2011
DAVID KILLINGRAY is Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.
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- PublisherJames Currey
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1847010156
- ISBN 13 9781847010155
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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Fighting for Britain - African Soldiers in the Second World War
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