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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... Film Unit made fortnightly African news films . ( Typical titles were Barbados Day in Portsmouth , These are London Firemen , English and African Life , Our Indian Soldiers and This is an Anti- Aircraft Gun . 140,000 Africans saw the ...
... film The Desert Fox . Not surprisingly , the Desert War produced more war films than any other front . For example , Sea of Sand ( about the LRDG ) , The Desert Rats , Ice Cold in Alex and Ealing's Nine Men . Within the region , the war ...
... film of the same name was also produced . 19. Harold Macmillan , The Blast of War , 1939-45 ( London , 1967 ) , p . 220 . 20. See Gardner Thompson , ' Governing Uganda : The Second World War and its After- math ' , in John Smith ( ed ...