The British Empire and the Second World WarIn 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. In the years since 1945 that empire has disappeared, and the crucial fact that the British Empire fought together as a whole during the war has been forgotten. All the parts of the empire joined the struggle and were involved in it from the beginning, undergoing huge changes and sometimes suffering great losses as a result. The war in the desert, the defence of Malta and the Malayan campaign, and the contribution of the empire as a whole in terms of supplies, communications and troops, all reflect the strategic importance of Britain's imperial status. Men and women not only from Australia, New Zealand and India but from many parts of Africa and the Middle East all played their part. Winston Churchill saw the war throughout in imperial terms. The British Empire and the Second World War emphasises a central fact about the Second World War that is often forgotten. |
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... Division 19 British mortar detachments at the Battle of Imphal - Kohima , July 1944 20 The Royal Garwhal Rifles search Japanese soldiers , Malaya , 1945 21 An Australian Matilda tank , Solomon Islands , May 1945 22 HMS Anson , in Sydney ...
... Division and Empire Informa- tion Service were to the fore in this operation . There were many other official and semi - official organizations doing the same thing , including the BBC's Empire Service , the British Overseas Wireless ...
... Division fought the Ital- ians in the Sudan , the Germans in Libya , the Iraqi army in Iraq and the Japanese in ... divisions IMPERIAL WAR 37.
Ashley Jackson. war Britain and its Empire and Commonwealth mobilized 103 divisions or their equivalent . Only 47.6 per cent of them were raised in Britain . The Empire and Commonwealth also provided 39 per cent of the RAF's aircrew.32 ...
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Contents
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5 The Atlantic | 53 |
6 The Caribbean | 77 |
7 The Mediterranean | 97 |
8 Iraq Iran and Syria | 145 |
11 The Islands of the Indian Ocean | 307 |
12 India and Burma | 351 |
13 SouthEast Asia and the Far East | 405 |
14 Australia and New Zealand | 463 |
15 The Pacific | 513 |
16 Epilogue | 525 |
Notes | 535 |
Bibliography | 561 |