This is the first full study of an African country during the Second World War. Unusually, it provides both an Africanist and an imperial perspective. Using ext

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, enab

A concise - and often light-hearted - record of the Fifth (Kenya) Battalion of that famous colonial unit, the King s African Rifles, who saw service throughout

In 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire that there had ever been.

"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire