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The war was all ready to begin when a duck was discovered nesting in the only cannon. So for want of a cannon, the war was avoided.
Author : Gabriel Olakunle Olusanya
Publisher : London : Evans Bros [for] University of Lagos
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Nigeria
ISBN :
The war was all ready to begin when a duck was discovered nesting in the only cannon. So for want of a cannon, the war was avoided.
Author : P. Olufemi Olusanya
Publisher :
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 1973
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Gabriel Olakunle Olusanya
Publisher : London : Evans Bros [for] University of Lagos
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Nigeria
ISBN :
The war was all ready to begin when a duck was discovered nesting in the only cannon. So for want of a cannon, the war was avoided.
Author : Chima J. Korieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108425801
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192526324
The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics offers a comprehensive analysis of Nigeria's very rich history and ever changing politics to its readers. It provides a deep understanding of Nigeria's socio-political evolution and experience by covering broad range of political issues and historical eras. The volume encompasses 44 chapters organized thematically into essays covering history, political institutions, civil society, economic and social policy, identity and insecurity, and Nigeria in a globalized world. By identifying many of the classic debates in Nigerian politics, the chapters serve as an authoritative introduction to Africa's most populous country. The chapters are interdisciplinary, introducing readers to classic debates and key research on Nigeria, as well as new methodologies, new data, and a compelling corpus of research questions for the next generation of researchers and readers interested in Africa.
Author : David Killingray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 1986-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1349182648
Author : Chris Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0429876963
Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts is a collection of chapters dealing with various overlooked aspects of the Second World War. The aim is to give greater depth and context to the war by introducing new stories about regions of the world and elements of the war rarely considered. These chapters represent new discussions on previously undeveloped narratives that help to expand our understanding of the interconnectedness of the war. It also provides an expanded view of the war as a mosaic of overlapping conflicts rather than a two-sided affair between massive alliance structures. The Second World War saw revolutions, civil wars, social upheaval, subversion, and major geopolitical policy shifts that do not fit neatly into the Allied vs. Axis 1939–1945 paradigm. This aim is to connect the unseen dots from around the globe that influenced the big turning points we think we know well but have really only a superficial understanding of and in so doing shed new light on the scope and influence of the war.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 0190050098
This book reads the narrative of the national politics alongside deeper histories of political and social organization, as well as in relation to competing influences on modern identity formation and inter-group relationships, such as ethnic and religious communities, economic partnerships, and immigrant and diasporic cultures
Author : Ashley Jackson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0826437605
In 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire that there had ever been. In the years since 1945 that empire has disappeared, and the crucial fact that the British Empire fought together as a whole during the war has been forgotten. All the parts of the empire joined the struggle and were involved in it from the beginning, undergoing huge changes and sometimes suffering great losses as a result. The war in the desert, the defence of Malta and the Malayan campaign, and the contribution of the empire as a whole in terms of supplies, communications and troops, all reflect the strategic importance of Britain's imperial status. Men and women not only from Australia, New Zealand and India but from many parts of Africa and the Middle East all played their part. Winston Churchill saw the war throughout in imperial terms. The British Empire and the Second World War emphasises a central fact about the Second World War that is often forgotten.
Author : John Igbino
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2018-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1546296166
In 1944 twenty thousand Allied Airborne Special Force troops in five Brigades commanded by Major General Orde Wingate landed behind the Japanese lines in Northern Burma. The Operation was Codenamed Operation Thursday. The Special Force troops were nicknamed ‘Chindits’. Four thousand Nigerian troops fought in the Special Force Brigades as Chindits during Operation Thursday. This book is an account of their operations behind Japanese lines between February and August 1944. The Brigade’s Insignia was the Black African Spider advancing on its prey. Thus, the Brigade called itself the ‘Spider Brigade’; its Battalions, namely the 6th, 7th and 12th Nigeria Regiments, ‘Spider Regiments’, and its troops ‘Spidermen’. The book is a well-written account of the Spider Brigade’s battles against the 18th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. It should force Chindit Historians to confront the anomalies in Contemporary History’s treatment of Nigerian Chindits. The book is a scholarly and dispassionate excursion into the 14th Army’s Campaigns, putting under the microscope the preconceived assumptions of British and Indian Armies’ Officer Corps about the fighting quality of Nigerian Chindits. Thus, the book is an important and long overdue account of Operation Thursday that will become the standard work on Nigeria’s contributions to Allied Airborne Invasion of Burma.