Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1177/09683445221102897e
Annalisa Urbano
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1177/09683445221102897c
Ben Shepherd
the sources. While many of the views expressed towards Italy’s allies and enemies are those that might be expected, there is surprisingly frequent praise for the Soviet Union. Some prisoners even ‘discussed the merits of forming a “USSR Republic of Europe to beat the English”’ (p.77). Elsewhere, some reveal apparent instances of military action undertaken against France before the declaration of war in June 1940 (p.91). In another blow to the longstanding stereotype of ‘gli italiani brava gente’ (the popularised idea of the ‘good Italian’ in wartime), there is evidence of broad awareness among the cohort of atrocities committed in the Balkans (pp.94–7) and frequent expressions of antisemitism. This includes one particularly shocking example of open support for the ‘extermination’ of Jews (p.97). Henry also argues that the CSDIC evidence supports the views of historians such as Paul Corner and Emilio Gentile, who argue that not only was the Fascist Party already unpopular with many Italians by 1940 but that Mussolini himself was too, especially so by 1942. In this way, he disagrees with scholars such as Christopher Duggan who have argued that Mussolini retained his popularity for most of the war (p.149). In this well-written book, Henry has broadly succeeded in his aim of using this underutilized source material to challenge stereotypes and dispel myths regarding the Italian armed forces and Italy’s war. Italian servicemen are depicted as being capable of fighting hard and to the end (e.g. p.43), but also of casual brutality and support for organised atrocity. Henry also frequently does an effective job of linking the evidence from the CSDIC sources with relevant secondary works from both the English and Italian-language historiography and engaging with existing debates. There are, however, two caveats. First, while Henry frequently engages with the historiography, the depiction of the Anglophone literature as one which still broadly dismisses Italians as militarily incompetent and the war with Italy as a sideshow is not entirely accurate (pp.7–11). He cites James Sadkovich as a rare exception, but Sadkovich is made to seem rarer than is actually the case as Henry does not engage with the works of John Gooch or Bastian Matteo Scianna, for example. The second issue relates to the CSDIC sources. Henry makes a commendable effort to treat his sources critically and discusses their utility across the introduction and chapter two. He accepts that ‘In all, the 563 selected Italian POWs made up just 0.4 percent of the 157,000 servicemen who were interned in the United Kingdom during the SecondWorldWar.’ (p.43). This disparity in representation could be viewed as being even wider than this, however. The Italian Army alone, for instance, numbered somewhere in the region of 1.5 million men in June 1940, according to Giorgio Rochat. This is worth bearing in mind when considering the link between the source base and the conclusions offered. Notwithstanding the
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1177/09683445221102897d
B. Linn
fortresses against the Soviet tide. The concept of the ‘fortress city’ had originated on the Eastern front. Though ultimately unsuccessful there, the Nazi leadership and Wehrmacht commands hoped it could now prevail thanks to the supposed practical benefits of fighting on home soil. These included the ability to harness a ‘battle community’ encompassing civilians also, whether by deploying them in home guard units or via other measures. Willems argues that although the fortress strategy was unrealistic, it was also rational; he thus challenges assertions that theWehrmacht was actively facilitating a conscious choreography of self-destruction during the war’s final months. Willems’ study employs copious, varied empirical evidence encompassing official and personal-level material drawn from the German federal military archive in Germany, from Kaliningrad, and from sources from the city that found their way into the west during the immediate post-war period before being housed in Duisburg. It is original, analytically rigorous, and engagingly written. It significantly deepens and refines understanding of the Third Reich’s collapse and of the Wehrmacht’s role within it, and deserves attention from specialists and students alike.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1177/09683445221102897a
Lidia Zessin-Jurek
the northern European bias of previous scholarship. However, the reasoning behind Greig’s decisions on which English or French memoirs to include or exclude are murkier. She has also made little effort to represent the men of the non-commissioned ranks. This is interesting, since Greig emphasizes the need to consider memoirists’ status and celebrates the presence of junior commissioned officers like Moyle Sherer and John Kincaid. Of the 14 memoirists of British origin in the bibliography, only Joseph Donaldson is from the lower ranks. I am not qualified to speak about missing French, Spanish, or Portuguese memoirs, but there are at least seven British privates and well over a dozen corporals and sergeants who have published accounts of their Peninsular War service during the period Greig is covering. Their absence from the book diminishes its value to British historians of the Peninsular War who rely heavily on these rankers’ first-person accounts. Issues of source selection aside, Greig’s transnational approach allows for many important new insights. Spanish authors were less likely than their British or French counterparts to be critical of military decisions in their memoirs. Where English publications were subtly political—with more of a propensity to dedicate their work to generals —it was the Spanish authors who wrote with more obvious agendas in the immediate aftermath of the conflict. Guerrilla leaders used their account of the Peninsular War ‘to lobby for positions of power under their preferred regime’ (p.115). Aristocratic generals seeking government rewards for loyal service issued their own war stories in print. The Spanish colonies’ wars of independence opened a market for these treatises to be consumed by new readers who read Peninsular accounts of resistance and liberation through their own distinct context. Demand for French memoirs saw a similar boost during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–1871, when French readers sought tales of former glories to assuage the humiliation of this more recent defeat. There is no similar speculation of the impact of the Crimean War, though it would seem an obvious explanation for Greig’s observation that ‘colonial service narratives’ replaced Peninsular War accounts in the British memoir market of the 1850s and 1860s (p.160). Greig is especially elegant in describing the materiality of the books and the physical experience of reading them. She transports us, in evocative prose, to distant archives and vividly recalls things like flyleaf inscriptions, bindings, and illustrations. These details make this a refreshing and rewarding study of sources. Peninsular War memoirs’ ongoing popularity ensures that Dead Men Telling Tales will remain required background reading for many researchers.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1177/09683445221102897g
Vipul Dutta
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1177/09683445221102897
Jennine Hurl-Eamon
the Men
男人们
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1177/09683445221102897f
A. B. I. Novosejt
Wiriyamu in the future (p.18). The book includes a foreword by Professor Jeanne Penvenne, a preface, an introduction, seven chapters, and a conclusion. Each chapter brings together a set of interviews addressing a different side of the story. The first chapter, titled ‘The Colonial War and the Wiriyamu Triangle’, deals with the liberation struggle in colonial Mozambique and how this affected the Wiriyamu area. The second chapter, ‘The Anatomy of the Massacres’, includes six witnesses’ accounts of the killings and constitutes the most vivid and compelling part of the book. The third chapter, ‘Gathering and Surveying the Evidence’, gives voice to those who first came to know about the massacre while attending to survivors. The rest of the book deals with the aftermath of the massacre and the subsequent efforts to let the story be known internationally. The fourth chapter, titled ‘The First Public Outing of the Wiriyamu Narrative’, documents early and successful attempts by two priests to secretly transfer written records outside Mozambique. The fifth chapter, ‘The Final Revelation’, reproduces three interviews with members of the London-based Catholic Institute for International Relations, documenting their key role in disclosing details of the Wiriyamu story in the United Kingdom. The sixth and seventh chapters, titled ‘The British Fact-Checkers’ and ‘The Final Act – Witness Protection’ respectively, address a relatively marginal part of the story, namely Western journalists’ attempts to gather more evidence and missionaries’ endeavours to protect a key eyewitness of the massacre. Although related to the broader picture, these last two chapters are more relevant for an understanding of the ways that the late Portuguese colonial regime worked in Mozambique rather than exploring aspects of the massacre itself. Overall, the book’s selection of interviews makes for a very good read, although a ‘tough’ one ‘to absorb in one sitting’ as the author acknowledges (p.69). These stories offer important insights not only into the brutality of the massacre but into everyday life in Wiriyamu before and after the killings. They also contribute to our understanding of the ways people put together, report, and make sense of their memories of traumatic events. A more comprehensive discussion of the contextual setting of late colonial Mozambique would have rendered the stories more accessible for an audience unfamiliar with the topic. This is, nevertheless, a minor fault. The stories collected in this book are a precious gift to be added as teaching materials to modules on colonial history and oral history methods. The Wiriyamu Massacre will certainly be of great interest to students and scholars of modern Africa.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1177/09683445221077740
Saltuk Duran
Based mainly on original French archival sources, this paper discusses the conduct and extent of French military and civil activities in Ottoman Istanbul during the Crimean War. Using both qualitative and quantitative indicators, the paper shows how the necessities generated by the war, promoted an unprecedented growth in the French military and civil presence in Istanbul. Through this approach, the paper explains to what degree the war created new market opportunities for various French products and services, a favourable environment for the establishment of French hospitals, and also occasions for cultural encounters between the French and the Ottomans in Istanbul.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-12DOI: 10.1177/09683445221082750
Ash Rossiter, A. Yates
The Gulf, a little-studied theatre of the Second World War, grew in importance to the area's leading power, Britain, as well as the Allies, as war progressed. All three Axis powers at one time or another tested Britain's ability to discharge its defence obligations, which included the protection of tiny Arab shaikhdoms and guarding nearby waters. With Britain's strategic imperatives lying elsewhere, British officials on the spot received scant resources to enact a scheme of defence for the Gulf and instead largely relied on makeshift measures. This article provides the first account of Britain's ad hoc defence arrangements in the region, and, in doing so, offers a window into the organisational, manpower and materiel attention major powers with overseas possessions give peripheral theatres.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1177/09683445221091309
Hugh Pattenden
This article considers in detail the ways in which ZANU and ZAPU sought to present the Rhodesian Security Forces in their propaganda during the UDI period. The Rhodesian Bush War was fought as much in the arena of public opinion as it was on the battlefield, a fact not lost on the guerrilla forces, who sought to delegitimize the RSF in a variety of ways. It argues that ZANU and ZAPU had to balance a range of factors when depicting the RSF, and used propaganda for multiple ends during the conflict.
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