African Colonial Prisoners of the Germans: A Pictorial History of Captive Soldiers in the World Wars

by Paul Garson

Through both World Wars, young African conscripts from Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, the Congo and elsewhere found themselves fighting for their colonial rulers, facing unknown enemies in unknown lands. German soldiers regarded their African enemies with a mixture of curiosity and malice, sometimes posing for snapshots with black POWs, sometimes summarily executing them on the battlefield. Mistreated by their own commanders during wartime, African...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476665451
• ISBN13: 9781476665450
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher