The British Empire and the Second World War

Bibliographic Data

ID9799577
AuthorsRitchie Ovendale (Aberystwyth University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume123
Issue500
Pages260-262
Publication date2008-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe English Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ehr/cem415
OpenAlexW1989970698
LanguageEN
Citations received2

A.J.P. Taylor once observed that the Second World War was an Imperial war, fought by the British in the Imperial zones of the Mediterranean and the Far East, and one which ended in victory for every imperial cause. But, at the end of the conflict, the English-speaking peoples did not perceive that the Commonwealth alone provided the foundation for their greatness and security. Ashley Jackson, a lecturer in defence studies at King's College London, with the hindsight of sixty years, offers not just a campaign history but an account of how the British Empire as a whole fought the Second World War. Using mainly published secondary sources, Jackson embraces Jamaica and the Caribbean, Iran, Iraq and Palestine, India, Burma and Malaya, as well as the Islands of the Indian Ocean in his narrative, which should do much to correct the Eurocentric view of the Second World War that tends to persist in Britain today

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · British Empire · Colonialism · Commonwealth · Decolonization · Economic history · Empire · Greatness · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Victory · World War II · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

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