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Durban 1942

Durban 1942

Hardcover

General World HistoryBritish HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1852850809
ISBN13: 9781852850807
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Aug 16 2003
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

On 13 January 1942 hundreds of army and air force servicemen due to sail from Durban on the British troopship City of Canterbury refused to board the vessel in defiance of their commanders and of the British Military and Naval authorities in South Africa. Gerry Rubin sees this unusual and dramatic incident in the round. Besides examining the legal case itself, its precedents and its outcome, he looks at both the human factors involved and at the wider background. In so doing he deals with a little-mentioned aspect of the war but one familiar to hundreds of thousands of servicemen: the journey by troopship via the Cape to the Middle and Far East.

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