During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the
Selected by Phillips (history, U. of Cape Town, South Africa) and Killingray (modern history, U. of London, UK) to reflect a diversity of approach and region of study, 16 papers assess the historical
The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in
