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Author | : Judith Ann-Marie Byfield |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total 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.
Author | : Thomas Rodney Christofferson |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0823225623 |
This title provides an introduction to almost every aspect of the French experience during World War II by integrating political, diplomatic, military, social, cultural and economic history. It chronicles the battles and campaigns that stained French soil with blood.
Author | : Eric T. Jennings |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2015-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316445194 |
Only in recent years have historians rediscovered the critical role that French colonial troops played in the twentieth century's two world wars. What is perhaps still deeply under-appreciated is how much General de Gaulle's Free France drew its strength from 1940 to the middle of 1943 from fighting men, resources, and operations in French Equatorial Africa rather than London. Territorially, Free France spanned from the Libyan border with Chad down to the Congo River, and to the scattered tiny French territories of the South Pacific and India. Eric T. Jennings tells the story of an improbable French military and institutional rebirth through Central Africa and gives a unique, deep look at the key role Free French Africa played during World War II to help the Allied cause.
Author | : Ruth Ginio |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803253397 |
7 Adjusting to a New Reality: The Army and the Imminent Independence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Author | : Raffael Scheck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2006-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521857994 |
Author | : Raffael Scheck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2014-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107056810 |
This book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. It illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards led to clashes with a colonial administration eager to return to a discriminatory routine following the war.
Author | : Melvin E Page |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 1987-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349188271 |
Author | : Ruth Ginio |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080325380X |
Before the Vichy regime, there was ostensibly only one France and one form of colonialism for French West Africa (FWA). World War II and the division of France into two ideological camps, each asking for legitimacy from the colonized, opened for Africans numerous unprecedented options. French Colonialism Unmasked analyzes three dramatic years in the history of FWA, from 1940 to 1943, in which the Vichy regime tried to impose the ideology of the National Revolution in the region. Ruth Ginio shows how this was a watershed period in the history of the region by providing an in-depth examination of the Vichy colonial visions and practices in fwa. She describes the intriguing encounters between the colonial regime and African society along with the responses of different sectors in the African population to the Vichy policy. Although French Colonialism Unmasked focuses on one region within the French Empire, it has relevance to French colonial history in general by providing one of the missing pieces in research on Vichy colonialism. Ruth Ginio is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of articles in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Cahiers d'etudes africaines, and several other journals.
Author | : Meredith Hindley |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610394062 |
This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control. In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch, 33,000 American soldiers sailed undetected across the Atlantic and stormed the beaches of French Morocco. Seventy-four hours later, the Americans controlled the country and one of the most valuable wartime ports: Casablanca. In the years preceding, Casablanca had evolved from an exotic travel destination to a key military target after France's surrender to Germany. Jewish refugees from Europe poured in, hoping to obtain visas and passage to the United States and beyond. Nazi agents and collaborators infiltrated the city in search of power and loyalty. The resistance was not far behind, as shopkeepers, celebrities, former French Foreign Legionnaires, and disgruntled bureaucrats formed a network of Allied spies. But once in American hands, Casablanca became a crucial logistical hub in the fight against Germany -- and the site of Roosevelt and Churchill's demand for "unconditional surrender." Rife with rogue soldiers, power grabs, and diplomatic intrigue, Destination Casablanca is the riveting and untold story of this glamorous city--memorialized in the classic film that was rush-released in 1942 to capitalize on the drama that was unfolding in North Africa at the heart of World War II.
Author | : Richard E. Osborne |
Publisher | : Riebel-Roque Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This is a history of the ENTIRE continent of Africa during World War II. It tells of the several wars in Africa and how they related to each other as well as to the conflicts in Europe, Asia, the Americas and the surrounding oceans. Also related in this book are the wartime experiences of the African people and how those experiences influenced the eventual de-colonization of the continent.