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Black Tommies - British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War (Hardcover)
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Black Tommies - British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War (Hardcover)
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Black Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part
played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army
during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been
ignored by historians, the existence of any substantial narrative
around Black British soldiers enlisting in the United Kingdom
during the First World War is equally unknown, even in military
circles. Much more material is now coming to light, such as the
oral testimony of veterans, and the author has researched widely to
gather fresh and original material for this fascinating book from
primary documentary sources in archives to private material kept in
the metaphorical (and actual) shoe boxes of descendants of black
Tommies. Reflecting the global nature of the conflict, Black
Tommies takes us on a journey from Africa to the Caribbean and
North America to the streets of British port cities such as
Cardiff, Liverpool and those of North Eastern England. This
exciting book also explodes the myth of Second Lieutenant Walter
Tull being the first, or only, black officer in the British Army
and endeavours to give the narrative of black soldiers a firm basis
for future scholars to build upon by tackling an area of British
history previously ignored.
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