French Africa In World War Ii

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French Africa In World War Ii

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Author : Eric T. Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-08

French Africa In World War Ii written by Eric T. Jennings and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-08 with History categories.

Only months after France's defeat in 1940, a new army was raised in Africa to fight the Nazis. Eric T. Jennings tells the story of an improbable French military and institutional rebirth through Central Africa and gives a unique look at the role Free French Africa played during World War II.

Africa And World War Ii

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Author : Judith A. Byfield
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-20

Africa And World War Ii written by Judith A. Byfield and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-20 with History categories.

This volume offers a fresh perspective on Africa's central role in the Allied victory in World War II. Its detailed case studies, from all parts of Africa, enable us to understand how African communities sustained the Allied war effort and how they were transformed in the process. Together, the chapters provide a continent-wide perspective.

The French Army And Its African Soldiers

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Author : Ruth Ginio
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01

The French Army And Its African Soldiers written by Ruth Ginio and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with History categories.

As part of France's opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing the decolonization of the territories comprising French West Africa (FWA). Even as late as the 1950s, the French Army clung to the hope that it was possible to retain FWA as a colony, believing that its relations with African soldiers could offer the perfect model for continued ties between France and its West African territories. In The French Army and Its African Soldiers Ruth Ginio examines the French Army's attempts to win the hearts and souls of the local population at a time of turbulence and uncertainty regarding future relations between the colonizer and colony. Through the prism of the army's relationship with its African soldiers, Ginio considers how the army's activities and political position during FWA's decolonization laid the foundation for France's continued active presence in some of these territories after independence. This project is the first thorough examination of the French Army's involvement in West Africa before independence and provides the essential historical background to understanding France's complex postcolonial military relations with its former territories in Africa.

French Colonial Soldiers In German Captivity During World War Ii

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Author : Raffael Scheck
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-15

French Colonial Soldiers In German Captivity During World War Ii written by Raffael Scheck and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-15 with History categories.

This book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. It illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards led to clashes with a colonial administration eager to return to a discriminatory routine following the war.

The French Navy In World War Ii

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Author : Auphan (amiral, Paul)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959

The French Navy In World War Ii written by Auphan (amiral, Paul) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Government publications categories.

French Colonialism Unmasked

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Author : Ruth Ginio
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2006-12-01

French Colonialism Unmasked written by Ruth Ginio and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-01 with History categories.

Before the Vichy regime, there was ostensibly only one France and one form of colonialism for French West Africa (FWA). World War II and the division of France into two ideological camps, each asking for legitimacy from the colonized, opened for Africans numerous unprecedented options. French Colonialism Unmasked analyzes three dramatic years in the history of FWA, from 1940 to 1943, in which the Vichy regime tried to impose the ideology of the National Revolution in the region. Ruth Ginio shows how this was a watershed period in the history of the region by providing an in-depth examination of the Vichy colonial visions and practices in fwa. She describes the intriguing encounters between the colonial regime and African society along with the responses of different sectors in the African population to the Vichy policy. Although French Colonialism Unmasked focuses on one region within the French Empire, it has relevance to French colonial history in general by providing one of the missing pieces in research on Vichy colonialism. Ruth Ginio is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of articles in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Cahiers d'etudes africaines, and several other journals.

France During World War Two

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Author : Thomas Rodney Christofferson
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2006

France During World War Two written by Thomas Rodney Christofferson and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.

This title provides an introduction to almost every aspect of the French experience during World War II by integrating political, diplomatic, military, social, cultural and economic history. It chronicles the battles and campaigns that stained French soil with blood.

Africa And The Second World War

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Author : David Killingray
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1986-07-02

Africa And The Second World War written by David Killingray and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-07-02 with History categories.

Vichy Air Force At War

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Author : Jonathan Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2011-01-01

Vichy Air Force At War written by Jonathan Sutherland and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with History categories.

"At the beginning of World War II the French faced the German invasion with 4,360 modern combat aircraft and 790 new machines currently arriving from French and American factories each month. When the phony war finally ended, some 119 of 210 squadrons were ready for action on the north-eastern front. The others were reequipping or stationed in the French colonies. Of the 119 squadrons France could bring into action only one-fourth of the aircraft were battle-ready.With France overrun by June 1940, what remained of the French air force was either concentrated in the unoccupied zone or had been hastily redeployed to the colonies. Nonetheless, in retaliation for the British attack on the French fleet in Oran, French bombers, based in French Morocco, carried out retaliatory air raids over Gibraltar. The Armee de l'Air de Vichy was born and would fight to the best of its ability against the Free French's allies in theatres as distant as north-west Africa, Syria, Lebanon, Madagascar and the Far East. Not only would they take to the skies against the British and later the Americans, they would also willingly take part in aerial duels against Free French pilots.Only a handful of books have been written on French aircraft, but never has there been a complete history of the operations of the Vichy Air Force and its fratricidal war. This title literally spans the globe, examining forgotten air combats. It is also important to note that many of the Vichy pilots that survived the air combats later volunteered to join the Free French and would fight with great courage and distinction alongside the very pilots that they had been trying to kill.rnrnThis book describes all major theatres of combat, examines the aircraft flown and lengthy appendices cover operational units, victory credits and the Aeronautique Navale"--Dust jacket.

White War Black Soldiers

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Author : Bakary Diallo
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2021-02-24

White War Black Soldiers written by Bakary Diallo and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-24 with History categories.

Strength and Goodness (Force-Bonté) by Bakary Diallo is one of the only memoirs of World War I ever written or published by an African. It remains a pioneering work of African literature as well as a unique and invaluable historical document about colonialism and Africa’s role in the Great War. Lamine Senghor’s The Rape of a Country (La Violation d’un pays) is another pioneering French work by a Senegalese veteran of World War I, but one that offers a stark contrast to Strength and Goodness. Both are made available for the first time in English in this edition, complete with a glossary of terms and a general historical introduction. The centennial of World War I is an ideal moment to present Strength and Goodness and The Rape of a Country to a wider, English-reading public. Until recently, Africa's role in the war has been neglected by historians and largely forgotten by the general public. Euro-centric versions of the war still predominate in popular culture, Many historians, however, now insist that African participation in the 1914-18 War is a large part of what made that conflict a world war.