Free French Africa in World War II : the African resistance /
Only in recent years have historians rediscovered the critical role that French colonial troops played in the twentieth century's two world wars. What is perhaps still deeply under-appreciated is how much General de Gaulle's Free France drew its strength from 1940 to the middle of 1943 fro...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I) Free France's African gambit
- Colonies without motherlands
- Africa as legitimacy
- Dysfunction in Gaullist Africa
- Part II) The war
- The empire strikes back
- Free French Africa in arms
- Part III) Resource extraction, wartime abuses, and African experiences
- Rubber, gold, and the battle for resources
- Colonial practices and wartime imperatives.
