Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Secker & Warburg ne ya fara buga rubutun a London a 1938, wanda kwanan nan ya buga James's "Minty Alley" a 1936 da "World Revolution" a 1937. James, wanda ke zaune a Ingila tun 1932, ya gane yakin duniya da ke gabatowa kuma ya ambaci shi a cikin rubutun; a cikin Gabatarwarsa ya sanya rubutun tarihin a cikin mahallin "farfadowar manyan bindigogi na Franco, da rawar da 'yan bindigar Joseph Stalin ke yi da kuma tsananin juyin juya halin juyin juya hali da ke neman tsabta da tasiri". A wani nassi na gaba, James ya rubuta game da bayi a farkon zamanin tashin hankali na juyin juya halin Faransa, "bayi kawai sun kalli iyayengijinsu suna lalata juna, kamar yadda 'yan Afirka suka kalle su a cikin 1914-1918, kuma za su sake kallon su ba da daɗewa ba". Game da nassinsa, James ya ce, "da a ce an rubuta shi a ƙarƙashin yanayi dabam da zai zama littafi dabam amma ba lallai ba ne ya fi kyau". Ya sadu da Alfred Auguste Nemours a Paris yayin da yake binciken littafin. Nemours, wani jami'in diflomasiyyar Haiti, ya rubuta "Histoire militaire de la guerre d'indépendance de Saint-Domingue" a shekarar 1925 yayin da Haiti ke karkashin mamayar Amurka
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