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The First World War
No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East African Campaign of the First World War
First history of the only primarily African military unit from Zimbabwe to fight in the First World War. Recruited from the migrant labour network, most African soldiers in the RNR were originally miners or farm workers from what are now Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, and Malawi. Like others across the world, they joined the army for a variety of reason...
The First World War in Africa
To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. The First World War was not just fought in the trenches of the western front. It embraced all of Africa. Many of those who fought this white man's war were black. The dangers they confronted went beyond those of the battlefield.
Springboks on the Somme - South Africa in the Great War 1914-1918
Just four years after the Union of South Africa was forged, following a war of rebellion and brutal subjugation, another war, on a significantly larger scale, tugged South Africa and its people into a series of separate but connected conflicts – from the the short-lived “Afrikaner Rebellion” of 1914, through the sands of German South West Africa (Namibia), the steamy bush of German East Africa (Burundi, Rwanda and Tanganyika), and on to the mud and blood of France and Flanders fields.