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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... established by the 1940s , featuring the London sojourns of indigenous rulers and their families , associations for West African students , clubs for West Indian servicemen , rest hostels for Mauritians run by well - to - do expatriates ...
... established its own signals intelligence section , recruiting four academics who later joined a group at Melbourne led by Commander Eric Nave . Most of Australia's signals intelligence personnel were in the Middle East theatre , but ...
... established at Morotai in the Moluccas , and two advance camps were established on Labuan Island , the British colonial territory just off the coast of Brunei and British North Borneo , and at Balikpapan Bay in Dutch Borneo , to support ...