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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... Officer Commanding African Pioneer Corps APL Aden Protectorate Levies ARP Air Raid Precautions BAAG British Army Aid Group BEATS British Empire Air Training Scheme BNA Burma National Army BPF British Pacific Fleet BR Burma Rifles BIA ...
... Officer NEF NMC Native Military Corps NRR NZEF New Zealand Expeditionary Force OB OCT OKW OSS OUT RAAF Royal Australian Air Force RAF RAMC Royal Army Medical Corps Ossewa Brandwag Officer Commanding Troops Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ...
... officers visiting Malta often recalled personal memories of the horrors of the Western Front in the First World War to convey the extent of the bomb damage inflicted on the island . Other territories , too , were bombed , including Aden ...
... officers and colonial administrators on the ground , from school to the university and staff college , were versed in the basic tenets of imperial defence and what frequently - reprinted textbooks termed ' imperial military geography ...
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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 |