DURBAN 1942
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
DURBAN 1942
By (Author) G. R. Rubin
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Hambledon Continuum
1st July 1992
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
Second World War
Modern warfare
Maritime history
940.54
Physical Properties
Hardback
184
300g
Description
On 13 January 1942 hundreds of army and air force servicemen due to sail from Durban on the British troopship City of Canterbury refused to board the vessel in defiance of their commanders and of the British Military and Naval authorities in South Africa. Gerry Rubin sees this unusual and dramatic incident in the round. Besides examining the legal case itself, its precedents and its outcome, he looks at both the human factors involved and at the wider background. In so doing he deals with a little-mentioned aspect of the war but one familiar to hundreds of thousands of servicemen: the journey by troopship via the Cape to the Middle and Far East.
