| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4 | The History Cooperative

John H. Morrow, Jr. The Great War: An Imperial History. New York: Routledge. 2004. Pp. xvi, 352. $27.50.
Given the weight of the existing historiography, any new history of the Great War should have a clear and distinctive rationale. John H. Morrow, Jr.'s book does so, largely because his aim—to write a genuinely "global" history of the war—marks his work out from that of most others in the field.	1
Morrow situates the Western Front within its wider European and imperial contexts. He emphasizes African involvement in many areas of the war: in Africa itself as soldiers and porters (on both sides), and in France as factory workers or as soldiers in the French colonial forces. The North and West African military contribution to the French war effort was particularly significant by 1916–1918, he argues, given the French Army's huge losses during the war's first two years (pp. 83, 131, 268–69). Occasionally Morrow overstates his case, claiming for example that "by 1915 some African chiefs and recruiters impressed men into service in ways reminiscent of, although in numbers far exceeding, the slave trade" (p. 96), a claim that surely is plausible only if it is taken to apply to particular localities and not to the slave trade as a whole. Morrow also highlights the importance of the Indian Corps to the British Expeditionary Force's (BEF) actions of 1914–1915, illustrated by a number of moving quotations from Indian soldiers' letters (pp. 82–83).	. . .

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