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A review by oleksandr
The World's War by David Olusoga
5.0
This book addresses less known part of the World War I – namely participation of on-whites in European fronts. It should be noted that while the majority of deaths/wound of the war were European, there were hundreds thousands of other people across the globe, who took part and paid their part in suffering, which was largely forgotten after the war.
Special highlights are for Indian troops of British, French Tirailleur Sénégalais. Also German African campaign of general Lettow-Vorbeck and his Askari. German attempts to subvert Muslims with Jihad, special POW camps for ‘colored’, whom they tried to persuade to rise against their colonial masters – inadvertently they created large early collection of audio clips with natives’ speeches, valuable for modern anthropology.
Also there was participation of Siam and China. The former supplied the most specialized force on the European theatre. The latter ‘lent’ over 200k laborers to work in France – those were responsible for mending the scares of battle after the armistice.
The sad story of US participation also described in detail – sad from the fact that ‘colored’ were able to fight only under French command, no WASP would ‘smear’ himself with black. And when they returned, lynching was on the rise ‘to remind blacks their place’
Special highlights are for Indian troops of British, French Tirailleur Sénégalais. Also German African campaign of general Lettow-Vorbeck and his Askari. German attempts to subvert Muslims with Jihad, special POW camps for ‘colored’, whom they tried to persuade to rise against their colonial masters – inadvertently they created large early collection of audio clips with natives’ speeches, valuable for modern anthropology.
Also there was participation of Siam and China. The former supplied the most specialized force on the European theatre. The latter ‘lent’ over 200k laborers to work in France – those were responsible for mending the scares of battle after the armistice.
The sad story of US participation also described in detail – sad from the fact that ‘colored’ were able to fight only under French command, no WASP would ‘smear’ himself with black. And when they returned, lynching was on the rise ‘to remind blacks their place’