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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... squadrons all over the globe , along with all necessary port installations , shore bases , support units and ancillary vessels , from destroyer and submarine depot ships to boom - laying vessels and survey ships . The ships of the Royal ...
... squadron , Force H , sent to the Mediterranean as a result of the fall of France and the loss of the French squadron's support , was based on Gibraltar . The African coast from West Africa to the Cape was important for shipping bound ...
... Squadron , for example , was made up of Canadians , Americans , Australians , New Zealanders and Irishmen , as well as Britons , when it fought in France before Dunkirk . In the summer of 1944 the RAF had 487 squadrons , one hundred of ...
... squadrons , twenty - three Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) squadrons and twenty - eight South African Air Force squadrons served with the RAF . In Britain ... squadrons and a squadron of the Indian Air Force forming Air IMPERIAL WAR 39.
Ashley Jackson. and a squadron of the Indian Air Force forming Air Forces India , and nine squadrons forming RAF Far East.35 Operations behind enemy lines , conducted throughout the world by British organizations such as Special ...
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 |