The Opening of the World War in South Africa
Author | : Lester S. Burbank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lester S. Burbank |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Brock Katz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : 9781928248071 |
Author | : J.F. Murray |
Publisher | : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 331806095X |
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the largest cause of adult deaths from any single infectious disease, and ranks among the top 10 causes of death worldwide. When TB and war occur simultaneously, the inevitable consequences are disease, human misery, suffering, and heightened mortality. TB is, therefore, one of the most frequent and deadly diseases to complicate the special circumstances of warfare. Written by internationally acclaimed experts, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. A special chapter on “Nazi Medicine, Tuberculosis and Genocide” examines the horrendous, inhuman Nazi ideology, which during WWII used TB as a justification for murder, and targeted the disease by eradicating millions who were afflicted by it. The final chapter summarizes the lessons learned from WWII and more recent wars and recommends anti-TB measures for future conflicts. This publication is not only of interest to TB specialists and pulmonologists but also to those interested in public health, infectious diseases, war-related issues and the history of medicine. It should also appeal to nonmedical readers like journalists and politicians.
Author | : Evert Kleynhans |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1776190211 |
The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence. In 1939, when the Union of South Africa entered the war on Britain's side, the German government secretly reached out to the political opposition, and to the leadership of the anti-war movement, the Ossewabrandwag. The Nazis' aim was to spread sedition in South Africa and to undermine the Allied war effort. The critical strategic importance of the sea route round the Cape of Good Hope meant that the Germans were also after naval intelligence. Soon U-boat packs were sent to operate in South African waters, to deadly effect. With the help of the Ossewabrandwag, a network of German spies was established to gather important political and military intelligence and relay it back to the Reich. Agents would use a variety of channels to send coded messages to Axis diplomats in neighbouring Mozambique. Meanwhile, police detectives and MI5 agents hunted in vain for illegal wireless transmitters. Hitler's Spies presents an unrivalled account of the German intelligence networks that operated in wartime South Africa. It also details the hunt in post-war Europe for witnesses to help the government bring charges of high treason against key Ossewabrandwag members.
Author | : Bill Nasson |
Publisher | : Penguin Global |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. An imperialist world war tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series of separate but connected conflicts - from the domestic Afrikaner Rebellion on the highveld, through the sands of German South West Africa, the steamy bush of German East Africa, and on to the mud and blood of France and Flanders. This book is the first general study of the complex ways in which South Africans experienced the impact of the First World War, and responded to its demands, burdens and opportunities.Told with his customary narrative energy and style, Bill Nasson's new history is a lively account not only of how South Africa fought the war, but also of the miscalculations and illusions that surrounded its involvement, and of how South African society came to imagine and remember that great and terrible conflict.
Author | : Ian van der Waag |
Publisher | : African Sun Media |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 192848090X |
The Second World War involved most of the countries of the world and left so many millions dead and maimed, disorganised and devastated through personal and communal loss. This book recovers some of South Africa’s soldiers’ experiences from the physical and mental debris of the war. Individuals are important; their lives – used as lenses – give us colour and texture, and their voices tell the stories of ordinary soldiers. Using their memoirs and diaries, the vitality of their endeavours is reasserted, their successes and failures, victories and indecencies are re-examined, and their magnanimity and the general triumph of the human spirit are celebrated.
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 | : David Killingray |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1986-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349182648 |
Author | : Chima J. Korieh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total 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.
Author | : A. T. Mahan |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2015-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781508624783 |
This is a concise but comprehensive history of the Boer War fought between the British and native South Africans. Here's an excerpt from the beginning of the book: "The war in South Africa has been no exception to the general rule that the origin of current events is to be sought in the history of the past, and their present course to be understood by an appreciation of existing conditions, which decisively control it. This is especially true of the matter here before us; because the southern extreme of Africa, like to that of the American continent, has heretofore lain far outside of the common interest, and therefore of the accurate knowledge, of mankind at large. The Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, in themselves remote, tempestuous, and comparatively unproductive regions, for centuries derived importance merely from the fact that by those ways alone the European world found access to the shores of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The application of steam to ocean navigation, and the opening of the Suez Canal, have greatly modified conditions, by diverting travel from the two Capes to the Canal and to the Straits of Magellan. It is only within a very few years that South Africa, thus diminished in consequence as a station upon a leading commercial highway, has received compensation by the discovery of great mineral wealth. Thus separated from the rest of the world, by lack of intrinsic value as a region producing materials necessary to the common good, the isolation of South Africa was further increased by physical conditions, which not only retarded colonisation and development, but powerfully affected the character and the mutual relations of the European settlers. Portuguese mariners, after more than half a century of painful groping downward along the West African coast in search of a sea route to India that vague tradition asserted could there be found, in 1486 rounded the Cape of Good Hope, which then received the despondent name of the Cape of Storms from its first discoverer, Bartholomew Diaz."