The first victory the Second World War and the East African campaign
A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a forgotten campaign
- Strategic miscalculation
- Hoping for the best
- War comes to East Africa
- Imperial defeat: the surrender of British Somaliland
- Preparing for the counter-offensive
- The advance from Kenya
- Second front: striking from the Sudan
- Triumph in the mountains: the Battle of Keren
- A third front: the patriots
- Winning the war, worrying about the peace
- Conclusion: the British empire's first victory