Название: Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers c. 1700-1964
Автор: David Killingray
Издательство: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719057345
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 9,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book explores the ways in which armies and armed forces were involved in the making, the maintenance and the loss of overseas empire. The volume ranges widely in time and space. Besides chapters on the British Empire in Africa, Asia and Oceana, there are also essays on Algeria, the Dutch East Indies, the Germans in Africa and the American Empire in the Pacific.