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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: WORLD WAR I WAS ALSO FOUGHT IN AFRICA!
Description: At the outbreak of the war, all of those armies were quite small but they rapidly grew many times their size in 1914
Historical memory of the First World War often focuses on the western front, perhaps because of egocentrism or the wealth of documents and literature that emerged from the front. But while the western front is iconic, this focus obscures the fact that the Great War was indeed a world war fought on several continents by soldiers from around the globe. An often overlooked theater was Africa, where soldiers from colonial armies fought each other on the continent, or jo...