Table of Contents

Introduction
Africa 1939
Recruiting
Army life
Indiscipline, strike & mutiny
War
Going home & demobilisation
Ex-servicemen & politics
The social impact of war service
Postscript

Reviews

[An] impressive study.
*CONTEMPORARY REVIEW*

An important scholarly contribution, but which, with its sweeping introduction and engaging style, can be read by all for pleasure and profit.
*BBC HISTORY*

REVIEWS OF THE CLOTH EDITION
*.*

Sober and judicious but also thrilling and dramatic.
*AFRICA*

Will become the one-stop reference for research on Anglophone Africa and its soldiers during World War II. [...] Killingray succeeds in putting human faces on some of the nearly one million African soldiers who laboured and fought.
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES*

Will be the standard work on the subject for years, probably decades to come, an entirely fitting pedestal given David Killingray's leadership in this field.
*INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS*

Of particular interest is [the author's] challenge to the conventional wisdom that returning soldiers were the vanguard of independence movements. Recommended.
*CHOICE*

The most comprehensive work attempted on the subject thus far. [...] This book addresses issues which will not only appeal to African specialists, and military and imperial historians, but should interest many social, political, cultural, transnational and economic historians too.
*REVIEWS IN HISTORY*

[A]n impressive synthesis of primary and secondary sources on Africans' contributions to the British Second World War effort. [...] It is replete with first-hand examples and voices from African men and draws upon a formidable range of materials and sources.
*PAMBAZUKA NEWS*

A well written book that makes a valuable contribution and should be read by anyone interested in the Second World War, Africa and/or race and military service.
*JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY*

A ground-breaking book which reveals as much about the imperial British as it does about their African subjects.
*NORTH SOUTH*

David Killingray's fascinating new book sets out in compelling prose and finely researched detail the extraordinary story of Africa's stalwart and generous support of the Empire's most perilous of wars.
*TLS*

A must for those undertaking historical research.
*SOLDIER MAGAZINE*