Fighting for Britain African Soldiers in the Second World War
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Fighting for Britain African Soldiers in the Second World War
[An] impressive study.
CONTEMPORARY REVIEW
An important scholarly contribution, but which, with its sweeping introduction and engaging style, can be read by all for pleasure and profit.
BBC HISTORY
REVIEWS OF THE CLOTH EDITION
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Sober and judicious but also thrilling and dramatic.
AFRICA
Will become the one-stop reference for research on Anglophone Africa and its soldiers during World War II. [...] Killingray succeeds in putting human faces on some of the nearly one million African soldiers who laboured and fought.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
Will be the standard work on the subject for years, probably decades to come, an entirely fitting pedestal given David Killingray's leadership in this field.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Of particular interest is [the author's] challenge to the conventional wisdom that returning soldiers were the vanguard of independence movements. Recommended.
CHOICE
The most comprehensive work attempted on the subject thus far. [...] This book addresses issues which will not only appeal to African specialists, and military and imperial historians, but should interest many social, political, cultural, transnational and economic historians too.
REVIEWS IN HISTORY
[A]n impressive synthesis of primary and secondary sources on Africans' contributions to the British Second World War effort. [...] It is replete with first-hand examples and voices from African men and draws upon a formidable range of materials and sources.
PAMBAZUKA NEWS
A well written book that makes a valuable contribution and should be read by anyone interested in the Second World War, Africa and/or race and military service.
JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY
A ground-breaking book which reveals as much about the imperial British as it does about their African subjects.
NORTH SOUTH
David Killingray's fascinating new book sets out in compelling prose and finely researched detail the extraordinary story of Africa's stalwart and generous support of the Empire's most perilous of wars.
TLS
A must for those undertaking historical research.
SOLDIER MAGAZINE
[An] impressive study.
CONTEMPORARY REVIEW
An important scholarly contribution, but which, with its sweeping introduction and engaging style, can be read by all for pleasure and profit.
BBC HISTORY
REVIEWS OF THE CLOTH EDITION
.
Sober and judicious but also thrilling and dramatic.
AFRICA
Will become the one-stop reference for research on Anglophone Africa and its soldiers during World War II. [...] Killingray succeeds in putting human faces on some of the nearly one million African soldiers who laboured and fought.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
Will be the standard work on the subject for years, probably decades to come, an entirely fitting pedestal given David Killingray's leadership in this field.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Of particular interest is [the author's] challenge to the conventional wisdom that returning soldiers were the vanguard of independence movements. Recommended.
CHOICE
The most comprehensive work attempted on the subject thus far. [...] This book addresses issues which will not only appeal to African specialists, and military and imperial historians, but should interest many social, political, cultural, transnational and economic historians too.
REVIEWS IN HISTORY
[A]n impressive synthesis of primary and secondary sources on Africans' contributions to the British Second World War effort. [...] It is replete with first-hand examples and voices from African men and draws upon a formidable range of materials and sources.
PAMBAZUKA NEWS
A well written book that makes a valuable contribution and should be read by anyone interested in the Second World War, Africa and/or race and military service.
JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY
A ground-breaking book which reveals as much about the imperial British as it does about their African subjects.
NORTH SOUTH
David Killingray's fascinating new book sets out in compelling prose and finely researched detail the extraordinary story of Africa's stalwart and generous support of the Empire's most perilous of wars.
TLS
A must for those undertaking historical research.
SOLDIER MAGAZINE