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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... theatre had to make do with Hurricanes battered in the fighting over Britain and France . By 1939 there was an alarming lack of armed force to protect what was still the largest conglomeration of political and economic interests and ...
... theatres , and imperial troops fought alongside Free French forces . It goes without saying that the contribution of ... theatre , and in Britain itself , American supplies and American forces were ubiquitous . In policing the Atlantic ...
... theatre affected those in another , particularly in the realm of human and material resource provision . When , for example , the Mediterranean was secured by Allied naval and air power and by victories in the North Africa desert ...
... theatre . One other fleet operated in the theatre , the Reserve Fleet , brought rapidly to a full state of mobilization by its Commander - in - Chief , Admiral Sir Max Horton , as soon as war was declared . At the outbreak 12,000 ...
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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 |