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Cargando... The World's War (2014)por David Olusoga
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WORLD WAR ONE BOOK OF THE YEAR In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War - a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is revelatory and authoritative. The World's War explores the experiences and sacrifices of 4 million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)940.412History and Geography Europe Europe Military History Of World War I Operations And UnitsClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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Special highlights are for Indian troops of British, French Tirailleur Sénégalais. Also German African campaign of general Lettow-Vorbeck and his Askari. German attempts to subvert Muslims with Jihad, special POW camps for ‘colored’, whom they tried to persuade to rise against their colonial masters – inadvertently they created large early collection of audio clips with natives’ speeches, valuable for modern anthropology.
Also there was participation of Siam and China. The former supplied the most specialized force on the European theatre. The latter ‘lent’ over 200k laborers to work in France – those were responsible for mending the scares of battle after the armistice.
The sad story of US participation also described in detail – sad from the fact that ‘colored’ were able to fight only under French command, no WASP would ‘smear’ himself with black. And when they returned, lynching was on the rise ‘to remind blacks their place’
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