Africa and the Second World War
Title | Africa and the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | David Killingray |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1986-07-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349182648 |
Africa and World War II
Title | Africa and World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Ann-Marie Byfield |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 565 |
Release | 2015-04-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110705320X |
This volume offers a fresh perspective on Africa's central role in the Allied victory in World War II. Its detailed case studies, from all parts of Africa, enable us to understand how African communities sustained the Allied war effort and how they were transformed in the process. Together, the chapters provide a continent-wide perspective.
On the Edges of Whiteness
Title | On the Edges of Whiteness PDF eBook |
Author | Jochen Lingelbach |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2020-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 178920447X |
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.
Nigeria and World War II
Title | Nigeria and World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Chima J. Korieh |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2020-03-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108425801 |
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa
Title | The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Reeva Spector Simon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2019-09-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000227944 |
Incorporating published and archival material, this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II, describing how the war affected Jews living along the southern rim of the Mediterranean and the Levant, from Morocco to Iran. Surviving the Nazi slaughter did not mean that Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa were unaffected by the war: there was constant anti-Semitic propaganda and general economic deprivation; communities were bombed; and Jews suffered because of the anti-Semitic Vichy regulations that left them unemployed, homeless, and subject to forced labor and deportation to labor camps. Nevertheless, they fought for the Allies and assisted the Americans and the British in the invasion of North Africa. These men and women were community leaders and average people who, despite their dire economic circumstances, worked with the refugees attempting to escape the Nazis via North Africa, Turkey, or Iran and connected with international aid agencies during and after the war. By 1945, no Jewish community had been left untouched, and many were financially decimated, a situation that would have serious repercussions on the future of Jews in the region. Covering the entire Middle East and North Africa region, this book on World War II is a key resource for students, scholars, and general readers interested in Jewish history, World War II, and Middle East history.
Fighting for Britain
Title | Fighting for Britain PDF eBook |
Author | David Killingray |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1847010474 |
Based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of over half-a-million African troops who served with the British Army in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy, and Burma. Looks at the impact of army life and travel on the men and their families, and the role of ex-servicemen in post-war nationalist politics.
Africa's World War
Title | Africa's World War PDF eBook |
Author | Gerard Prunier |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 2008-12-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199743991 |
The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-D?sir? Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractible and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Praise for the hardcover: "The most ambitious of several remarkable new books that reexamine the extraordinary tragedy of Congo and Central Africa since the Rwandan genocide of 1994." --New York Review of Books "One of the first books to lay bare the complex dynamic between Rwanda and Congo that has been driving this disaster." --Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times Book Review "Lucid, meticulously researched and incisive, Prunier's will likely become the standard account of this under-reported tragedy." --Publishers Weekly