Fighting for Britain: African Soldiers in the Second World War

by David Killingray and Martin Plaut

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847010474
• ISBN13: 9781847010476
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"