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Author : David Killingray,Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349182640
Author : Judith A. Byfield,Carolyn A. Brown,Timothy Parsons,Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107053205
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 : Jochen Lingelbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789204476
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.
Author : R. Scott Sheffield,Noah Riseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424639
A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.
Author : David Killingray,Martin Plaut
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847010476
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.
Author : Gerard Prunier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : History
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
Author : Chima J. Korieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108425803
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 829 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316084079
A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.
Author : Reeva Spector Simon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000227949
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.
Author : Filip Reyntjens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521111287
This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when elections formally ended the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A unique combination of circumstances explain the unravelling of the conflicts: the collapsed Zairian/Congolese state; the continuation of the Rwandan civil war across borders; the shifting alliances in the region; the politics of identity in Rwanda, Burundi and eastern DRC; the ineptitude of the international community; and the emergence of privatized and criminalized public spaces and economies, linked to the global economy, but largely disconnected from the state - on whose territory the "entrepreneurs of insecurity" function. As a complement to the existing literature, this book seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of concurrent developments in Zaire/DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda in African and international contexts. By adopting a non-chronological approach, it attempts to show the dynamics of the inter-relationships between these realms and offers a toolkit for understanding the past and future of Central Africa.
Author : Ian van der Waag
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781928480907
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 : Eric T. Jennings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107048485
Only months after France's defeat in 1940, a new army was raised in Africa to fight the Nazis. Eric T. Jennings tells the story of an improbable French military and institutional rebirth through Central Africa and gives a unique look at the role Free French Africa played during World War II.
Author : Helmuth Stoecker
Publisher : London : C. Hurst ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press International
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038210899
Author : Michel Abitbol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 081431824X
Author : T. Falola,E. Mbah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137444134
60 years after independence, African nations still find it difficult to face a number of challenges, from establishing meaningful democratic institutions to establish social structures centered on the advancement of gender equality. This volume approaches these contemporary African challenges while combating a reflexive and facile Afro-Pessimism.