Titlebook: War and Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean; Ashley Jackson Book 2001 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Defending the Home Front: Local and Imperial Defence Measures, to provide for the security of their territories and to ensure their greatest possible self-sufficiency. Supplies of foodstuffs and essential goods were likely to be cut off as shipping was either sunk or requisitioned, and imperial garrisons, where they existed, were likely to be depleted or withd

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Colonial Military Labour in Europe and the Middle East,imperial troops fighting in the Middle East and Southern Europe depended.. In North and East Africa, the British had by early 1941 extinguished the imperial ambitions and the core of the military forces of Italy through spectacular victories in Libya, Abyssinia and Somaliland. Yet these bold success

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The Mauritius Regiment and the Madagascar Mutiny, It was a new Regiment of the British Army that had only had its colours granted in principle by King George V in October 1943.. During the three-day crossing from Mauritius conditions onboard ship were cramped, the food was unpleasant and many of the men were sea sick. Arriving in Madagascar, the B

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The Secret War: Censorship, Radio Propaganda and Code-Breaking,propaganda to undermine the loyalty of enemy subjects reached new heights of sophistication. It was a war of the airwaves in which propaganda was beamed across enemy frontiers, and the enemy’s cable and wireless signals intercepted and decoded. The war also saw the extensive use of censorship to scr

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The End of the War and Strategic Transformation in the Indian Ocean, and announced a two-day public holiday,. the cannons at Port Louis fired a salvo, church bells rang throughout the island, the Police Band entertained at the Champ de Mars, the Town Hall, the Luna Park and the Majestic were illuminated, there was a Chinese dragon procession, fireworks at Champ de M

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Colonial Military Labour in Europe and the Middle East,perial ambitions and the core of the military forces of Italy through spectacular victories in Libya, Abyssinia and Somaliland. Yet these bold successes were overshadowed by the arrival of General Rommel in February 1941 to command the Afrika Korps, and his successful attacks prolonged the desert war for many months..