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Someone Elseâs War : Fighting for the British Empire in World War I - John  Connor

Someone Elseâs War

Fighting for the British Empire in World War I

By: John Connor

Hardcover | 17 January 2019

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World War I was the first truly global conflict and its effects were felt across the British Empire. When war broke out in 1914, Great Britain had the largest empire, encompassing one quarter of the population of the world. Many colonial citizens were to be enlisted into the war effort and shipped from their homes in Africa, Asia and Australasia to fight on the battlefields of the Western Front. What was the experience of war like for citizens of empire, whether combatants or not? How did the empire affect countries administered by Great Britain but geographically located tens of thousands of miles from the conflict? In this book, John Connor tells the story of the people whose lives were profoundly affected by 'someone else's war' o dragged, against their will, into a geopolitical conflict vastly removed from their normal lives.
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`John Connor's accessible and illuminating reinterpretation of World War I presents that conflict as a fundamentally imperial phenomenon. This was a war fought and ultimately won not only in France, Belgium and Palestine, but in East Africa and New Guinea; in the Indian and Pacific Oceans as well as the Dardanelles and the North Sea; and on the farms of the Canadian prairie, the cattle ranches of Argentina and the sheep stations of Australia, as surely as in the munitions works of Britain. Someone Else's War is a capacious global history of a crisis poorly understood if viewed through a Eurocentric lens.' - Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, The Australian National University

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