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Article: The British Empire and the Second World War.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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The British Empire and the Second World War. Ashley Jackson. Hambledon Continuum. [pounds sterling]25.00. xviii + 604 pages. ISBN 1-85285-417-0. The author reminds readers that the Second World War was also an imperial war in which Empire troops and air-forces played important and sometimes decisive parts. In no area did troops from the British Isles fight without men from the Empire beside them. The war put a 'massaive strain' on the Empire and Commonwealth and in the end (as ...