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,

This book relates a chapter of American military history which many people would rather forget. When the United States came to the aid of Britain in 1942, the a

"First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press"--T.p. verso.

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealt