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Fighting for Britain - African Soldiers in the Second World War (Paperback)
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Fighting for Britain - African Soldiers in the Second World War (Paperback)
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The first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of
thousands of African soldiers who served with the British army
during the Second World War. During the Second World War over
half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as
combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa,
the Middle East, Italy and Burma - 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. Army life exposed them to a range of new and
startling experiences: new foods and forms of discipline, uniforms,
machines and rifles, notions of industrial time, travel overseas,
new languages and cultures, numeracy and literacy. What impact did
service in the army have on African men and their families? What
new skills did soldiers acquire and to what purposes were they put
on their return? What was the social impact of overseas travel, and
how did the broad umbrella of army welfare services change
soldiers' expectations of civilian life? And what role if any did
ex-servicemen play in post-war nationalist politics? In this book
African soldiers describe in their own words what it was like to
undergo army training, to travel on a vast ocean, to experience
battle, and their hopes and disappointments on demobilisation.
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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