Illustrations; Preface; Note; Abbreviations; 1 Prologue; 2 The Approach of War; 3 Imperial War; 4 The Home Front; 5 The Atlantic; 6 The Carribean; 7 The Mediterranean; 8 Iraq, Iaran and Syria; 9 SubSaharan Africa; 10 The Indian Ocean; 11 The Islands of the Indian Ocean; 12 India and Burma; 13 South-East Asia and the Far East; 14 Australia and New Zealand; 15 The Pacific; 16 Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
A pioneering study of the role Britain's empire played in fighting the Second World War.
Ashley Jackson is Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies, King's College London, at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He was a fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. His books include the acclaimed The British Empire and the Second World War.
'There have been few single volume books on this episode. Ashley
Jackson...has filled that gap with an insightful and deeply
researched work that will be a useful source for anyone
interested in the subject. The book is nicely produced and good
value...Jackson has achieved something wholly admirable; he has
ensured that nobody should ever again take seriously the notion of
Britain "standing alone"' BBC History Magazine, Denis Judd,
01/08/2006
'an impressive work...Jackson deserves considerable congratulations
for a most interesting work...Readers of this journal will find
much of value here.' ~ Jeremy Black, RUSI Journal, 2006
*Jeremy Black*
"This book is elegantly written, superbly structured, and deserves
a wide readership far beyond that of academic specialists."
Reveiwed by Ritchie Ovendale in English Historical Review, February
2008
"Carefully researched and well-written, The British Empire and the
Second World War is encyclopedic in its content and fills a gap in
the study of World War II. It is the first single-volume of the
subject." -Bowling Green Daily News
"As the title indicates, this work deals with the role 60 or more
political entities more or less tied to the United Kingdom - crown
colonies, Dominions, mandates, protectorates, and many more -
played in the ‘British' war effort...It's an impressive
contribution, as he shows what even the smallest and most obscure
entities within the Empire contributed to the war, from the Indian
Princely States to British Honduras to the Maldive Islands and
others. In the process, he also provides a unique insight into the
extremely complex strategic concerns of a truly global empire in a
truly global war." - New York Military Affairs Symposium Review,
2009
"engrossing and substantial study" "like the british empire itself,
this book is vast, sprawling and impressive" Asian Affairs, nov
2007
*Keith Jeffery*
'a fittingly magisterial work.' ~ Graham Stewart, The Spectator
*Spectator, The*
'The great merit of this well-researched book is that it provides
page after page of documented detail supporting the main
proposition....The book will appeal massively to readers who enjoy
the simple possession of facts; and any study that encourages
scepticism of too Eurocentric a view of history, especially of
British history, is greatly to be welcomed.'- Gordon Johnson Times
Higher Education Supplement
*The Times Higher Education Supplement*
'Ashley Jackson's vast and ambitious narrative is an attempt to
place the second world war in an imperial context....Jackson's
well-researched and wide-ranging book goes some way towards
redressing the balance.' ~ Nick Rennison, Times Online
*Times*
'[a] splendid and long-overdue study...It is a thorough and
comprehensive work that neither glamorizes the Imperial war effort
nor cherry-picks the more dramatic contributions.'
*Times Literary Supplement*
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