Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War The Dial Press Winner of the 1996 American

Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship Americans have lost touch with their history

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Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War The Dial Press Winner of the 1996 AmericanBlack Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been ignored by historians, the existence of any substantial narrative around Black British soldiers enlisting in the United Kingdom during the First World War is equally unknown, even in military circles. Much more material is now coming to light, such as the oral