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Soldiers, airmen, spies, and whisperers : the Gold Coast in World War II
Yazar:
Lawler, Nancy Ellen.
ISBN:
9780821414309
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Yayım Bilgisi:
Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, c2002.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xxiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
İçerik:
Machine generated contents note: Chapter One: The Fall of France and the British West African Colonies --I Introduction -- II A Summer of Uncertainty -- III The Lines Harden: Oran and Its Aftermath -- IV The War Office Takes Over -- V De Gaulle, the AEF, and the AOF: Win One, Lose One -- VI Invasion Scares: Perceiving the Threat -- VII The Gold Coast Regiment before World War II -- VIII The Build-up to War --Chapter Two: The Takoradi Ferry and Defense on the Home Front --I Beginnings of the West African Reinforcement Route -- II The West African Reinforcement Route: Fully Operational -- III The West African Reinforcement Route: Enter the United States -- IV New Blood: The Expansion of the Gold Coast Regiment -- V The Home Guard -- VI Invasion and Counter-invasion: Fears --Chapter Three: The Special Operations Executive in West Africa: -- The Franck Mission --I Economic Warfare and the Special Operations Executive -- II Eyes on West Africa --III The Franck Mission and WAGON -- IV The Franck Mission: The Gold Coast Section -- V The Free French --Chapter Four: With Friends Like Thesethe SOE, the SIS, and the Army --I From the Franck Mission to Frawest -- II Intelligence Gathering in the Gold Coast -- III West Africa's Little War: Giffard and the SIS -- vs Governors' Conference and the SOE -- IV Exit Wingate -- V Enter Lumby --Chapter Five: The Special Operations Executive at Work in the Gold Coast --I A Window on Wenchi -- II Free French Operations -- III Smuggling -- IV To Fraternize or not to Fraternize --Chapter Six: Propaganda: The Home Front and Beyond --I Spreading the Word: Wartime Broadcasting in the Gold Coast -- II Information Bureaus and Cinema Vans -- III Propaganda, the Free French, and the SOE -- IV Whispering in the Dark -- V Vichy Propaganda -- VI The Spitfires Fund -- VII The Impact of the Propaganda Machine --Chapter Seven: The Crossing of the Gyaman: Triumph or Embarrassment? --I One People, Two Colonies: The Gyaman of C6te d'Ivoire and Gold Coast -- II The Gyaman under Vichy -- III The Crossings of the Gyaman -- IV Meanwhile, Back in the C6te d'Ivoire -- V The Return of the Gyaman --Chapter Eight: The Beginning of the End: The War Moves On --I Operation Torch: The AOF Deserts Vichy -- II The Fate of Frawest -- III The Fate of the Soldiers and Airmen -- Chapter Nine: Possible Futures --I Fantasies of War -- II A First What-If: The SOE Triumphant -- III A Second What-If: The Takoradi Ferry Disrupted -- IV A Third What-If: Boisson between Axis and Allies -- V A Fourth What-If: Dakar Falls to Free France in September 1940.
Özet:
In this study, Lawler describes how the Gold Coast Regiment, denuded battalions of fighting in East Africa, was rapidly expanded at home to meet the threat of invasion. It is an account of World War II in one colony, but is firmly set within the wider context of a world at war.
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