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Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa
In the aftermath of the Great War, many Britons dismissed the East Africa campaign as a remote “sideshow.” But to the other combatant powers, it was a campaign of immense importance, and it continued to rage even after the Armistice was signed. Here, for the first time and in devastating detail, is the true story of what happened, told by one of the finest historians of our time. Edward Paice follows this final phase of the European conquest of Africa, as both Allies and Germans lay waste to an area five times the size of Germany, and cause civilian suffering on an unimaginable scale.
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July 25, 2018
I had stop reading this one at the half way point. It really failed to hold my interest. I think that the problem was it felt like I was reading a list of troop movements rather than a larger story. The author does provide some details on pertinent battles, however the book lacked true depth when it comes to the stories of the people involved and a more detailed political context. It seems that perhaps the author was trying to document too many facts in too few pages.
April 10, 2018
We have here a combination of thorough detail on the East African campaign of World War I including some very welcome sections on logistics, the plight of carriers, and diplomatic movements that accompanied the war.
What we do not have is any meaningful coverage of Togo, Cameroon, or Namibia. These campaigns were far less long and bloody but deserve coverage. We also often get told XYZ won such and such an award in an action but rarely get told what specifically they did. It would have also been welcome to have more discussion on tactics used by soldiers at the battlefield level and the equipment of various Askari units.
What we do not have is any meaningful coverage of Togo, Cameroon, or Namibia. These campaigns were far less long and bloody but deserve coverage. We also often get told XYZ won such and such an award in an action but rarely get told what specifically they did. It would have also been welcome to have more discussion on tactics used by soldiers at the battlefield level and the equipment of various Askari units.
January 21, 2022
Edward Paice's World War I: The African Front spotlights the arduous Great War "sideshow" in British and German East Africa. This uneven clash found Paul Lettow Vorbeck, a stiff-necked Prussia turned unwitting guerrilla leader, mobilizing German and African askari troops against far superior Allied forces (not only England but South Africa, Belgium and Portugal) for the duration of the war. Paice shows that while small compared to the titanic clashes on the Western Front, Lettow's campaign tied down 200,000 Allied soldiers (ten times his own strength) and didn't conclude until after Armistice Day. The campaign is full of colorful personalities and imperial wheeling-and-dealing of the most cynical kind: the British sought to annex German East Africa while Belgium, Portugal and South Africa (semi-independent at the time) stretched their thin resources to expand their own territory. Paice provides picturesque adventures - the "Battle of the Bees" at Tanga, the famous overland voyage of British gunboats to Lake Tanganyika, the clashes at Kilamanjaro and Tabora - but stresses the war's human cost: soldiers sweated and succumbed to disease, while Africans - military askaris who made the bulk of both sides' armies, porters conscripted into gruelling labor, civilians suffering famine and destruction of land and property -disproportionately suffered under the yolk of European powers. The book also deconstructs the reputation of Lettow Vorbeck, portrayed less as a brilliant commander than a reckless martinet lucky in his choice of opponents; among them South African leader Jan Smuts, whose military conduct borders on incompetent. The book sometimes bogs down in tactical detail and the other sectors of African conflict are mostly neglected (aside from a brief aside on the Maritz Rebellion among pro-German South Africans), but for the most part it's a readable, compelling tale of the Great War's strangest sideshow.
December 27, 2016
Most the European powers sought to limit black African involvement in combat, and yet most of the casualties in the African theatre by far were black Africans. Rebellions and brutal repressions, forced conscription that amounted to slavery, starvation and dehydration because Europeans got first dibs on food and water, preferential medical treatment for Europeans, etc.
These are the most interesting and impactful tidbits, but they are scattered here and there between page after page of dry-as-a-mouthful-of-dust detail about troop movements, British and German officer biographies, disputes, bad decisions, damage to military reputations, and other (Eurocentric) minutiae. (Speaking of troop movements, I kept thinking one or two diagrams could have replaced entire chapters. And all the conjecture that concluded with "I guess the world will never know what was going through Major Von-whatshisname's mind when he decided to retreat from this random little East African town" should have been redlined by a better editor.)
So overall, frustrating at best. It is as if Paice knew where the real story was, was self-aware enough to acknowledge it throughout, but then wrote a book with a tone and a focus that would not have been out of place had this book been written in 1918, the year Von Lettow Vorbeck surrendered. (Whoops, sorry, spoiler.)
These are the most interesting and impactful tidbits, but they are scattered here and there between page after page of dry-as-a-mouthful-of-dust detail about troop movements, British and German officer biographies, disputes, bad decisions, damage to military reputations, and other (Eurocentric) minutiae. (Speaking of troop movements, I kept thinking one or two diagrams could have replaced entire chapters. And all the conjecture that concluded with "I guess the world will never know what was going through Major Von-whatshisname's mind when he decided to retreat from this random little East African town" should have been redlined by a better editor.)
So overall, frustrating at best. It is as if Paice knew where the real story was, was self-aware enough to acknowledge it throughout, but then wrote a book with a tone and a focus that would not have been out of place had this book been written in 1918, the year Von Lettow Vorbeck surrendered. (Whoops, sorry, spoiler.)
February 20, 2016
A fascinating look at a forgotten front of the First World War. Paice does an exceptional job of exploring the campaign in German East Africa, where both the Germans and British fought the environment as much as they fought each other (one battle's outcome was affected by a swarm of angry bees). Unfortunately the author fails to give much detail to the actions in other parts of Africa, making the subtile somewhat misleading (it should be the "the EAST African Front"). Still, this is an engaging book that provides a vivid portrait of one of more unusual campaigns in war history.
November 20, 2021
Possibly the most boring history book I’ve ever read. Not sure how Paice did that considering how interesting WWI history is. Very Eurocentric, lengthy, and dry. Characters receive minimal introduction and you’re simply expected to remember a massive compendium of names (book begins with a 6 page Dramatis Personae) and places. The only redeeming quality was the fact that the historical content was wild and unique and Paice couldn’t completely quench it of its fiery, passionate nature.
July 7, 2024
This book was very informative, and had a whole lot of information that I had never heard before. It offered a lot to learn. That being said, holy cow was it dry.
February 9, 2014
Three stars for the detail (Paice lived in Eastern Africa for two years doing research). And if you are a historian who want s to know which two companies of the KAR fought at Tonga and who the quartermaster was, this book is for you. For me, it was a slog of a read, and I resorted to skimming, because it was all facts and not much of a story, very little character analysis (but you knew what they had for ammunition stores). I agree with other reviewers, I wish it had expanded the scope to other areas of Africa, which is what I expected. It reminded me of the official history of MI-5 (another disapointment), which somehow made spycraft boring.
September 9, 2009
What a shame that this book doesn’t really do the subject justice. I know the areas and have travelled through many of these remote places but still find the maps and places mentioned hard to follow. Some of the most interesting stuff is simply not mentioned like Selous part in the conflict. I am enjoying the book but it could be a whole lot better.
Perhaps he tried to improve on it with the very similar book he published a year later but I see the reviews are much the same for it.
Perhaps he tried to improve on it with the very similar book he published a year later but I see the reviews are much the same for it.
June 15, 2013
I was very interested to learn about the subject of this book, especially the two British battleships carried to lake Tanganyika. Unfortunately this book was so full of facts that it was just heavy going for me. I got stuck half way through and did not finish reading this book unfortunately. Although it is an interesting account of the history, it is not exactly made easy to read for the standard human being that I am...
March 10, 2020
In a way, this book does not quite live up to its title. To be sure, it is a very good book about World War I in East Africa, but this book claims to be a look at World War I's African Front, and it is less ambitious than that. Perhaps a comparison would make this easiest to understand. If we looked at a book that claimed to talk about the African Front of World War II and all it included was a discussion of the battle over Egypt, it may be a good book (as this one is), but it would not be what it says given the fact that there was fighting in Somaliland and neighboring areas as well that would have to be taken into consideration. This book barely mentions World War I in Togo, Camaroon, and Namibia and focuses on the battle for control of German East Africa and the drama that was involved there. The author speaks eloquently about imperial warfare in this area and what it entailed and the stresses that the war put on different empires and the relationships between the UK and Belgium and Portugal, which were unequally yoked allies with a great deal of mutual bad blood.
This book is a long one at more than 400 pages and is divided by year. The book begins with a list of illustrations, maps, acknowledgements, glossary, and a discussion of the people focused on in this book. After that there is an introduction and then the first part of the book begins with five chapters on 1914 that discuss the opening German attacks, the phony war, a failed assault and its aftermath, and the marking of time that followed. After that, the author discusses the warfare along the Tanzanian coast and in the west where Belgium got involved, and also the destruction of the Konigsburg and the involvement of the Portuguese in 1915. The discussion of 1916 involved a military build-up, raids and advances and retreats, as well as the attempt by South Africa's troops to gain a final phase of victory while logistics proved to be a massive struggle. In 1917 the author discusses raids, German efforts to avoid being captured, and the propaganda war. Finally, 1918 includes three chapters on the hunt of the German army as it moved into Portuguese West Africa and then sought to invade Northern Rhodesia in the search for ammunition and supplies that ended with a surrender. After that there is an epilogue about the postwar experience of the German leaders as well as appendices that discuss the orders of battle from 1914 to 1918, notes, a bibliography, and an index.
Ultimately, the ending of this book is somewhat anticlimactic. Germany was simply unable to provide resources to its wayward and starving colonial army and though the German colonial forces were brave and led well, it was not surprising at all that they should be forced to come to terms when Germany itself lost the will to resist the Allied forces arrayed against them. This book has a lot of negative things to say about imperialism, regardless of what variety one is talking about, and is especially pointed about the disagreements that existed between people and the struggles faced by the imperial armies in getting enough carriers to provide logistics support for the conflict that went on far longer than anyone predicted would be the case. The book has a lot of humor but a great deal of that humor makes fun of the leadership of the imperial nations and the way that their best-laid plans ended up not working out that well and even then there is a sense of futility about the deaths and injuries that resulted from an imperial war that went far beyond what anyone expected.
This book is a long one at more than 400 pages and is divided by year. The book begins with a list of illustrations, maps, acknowledgements, glossary, and a discussion of the people focused on in this book. After that there is an introduction and then the first part of the book begins with five chapters on 1914 that discuss the opening German attacks, the phony war, a failed assault and its aftermath, and the marking of time that followed. After that, the author discusses the warfare along the Tanzanian coast and in the west where Belgium got involved, and also the destruction of the Konigsburg and the involvement of the Portuguese in 1915. The discussion of 1916 involved a military build-up, raids and advances and retreats, as well as the attempt by South Africa's troops to gain a final phase of victory while logistics proved to be a massive struggle. In 1917 the author discusses raids, German efforts to avoid being captured, and the propaganda war. Finally, 1918 includes three chapters on the hunt of the German army as it moved into Portuguese West Africa and then sought to invade Northern Rhodesia in the search for ammunition and supplies that ended with a surrender. After that there is an epilogue about the postwar experience of the German leaders as well as appendices that discuss the orders of battle from 1914 to 1918, notes, a bibliography, and an index.
Ultimately, the ending of this book is somewhat anticlimactic. Germany was simply unable to provide resources to its wayward and starving colonial army and though the German colonial forces were brave and led well, it was not surprising at all that they should be forced to come to terms when Germany itself lost the will to resist the Allied forces arrayed against them. This book has a lot of negative things to say about imperialism, regardless of what variety one is talking about, and is especially pointed about the disagreements that existed between people and the struggles faced by the imperial armies in getting enough carriers to provide logistics support for the conflict that went on far longer than anyone predicted would be the case. The book has a lot of humor but a great deal of that humor makes fun of the leadership of the imperial nations and the way that their best-laid plans ended up not working out that well and even then there is a sense of futility about the deaths and injuries that resulted from an imperial war that went far beyond what anyone expected.
January 13, 2024
Reviewed on Amazon (2010) titled: The 'Good Empire' triumphs again!
I wanted to give this more stars for he does an admirable job in covering with excellent detail this largely unknown campaign. The numerous maps are a plus although not all place names in the text are on the maps (or I could not locate them.) Orders of battle are apparently complete and the descriptions of the unit actions serviceable, if not very inspiring. Like many a British apologist however he slips badly in his repeated attempts to paint the 'Empire' (you know which one) in a comparatively favorable light...vis-a-vis the 'evil' Germans. He begrudgingly acknowledges the superior performance of the German officers and their outstanding aksari. But only by painting them first as heartless exploiters of native peoples, in contrast to the far more humane and enlightened world administered by the good old Empire. Given the huge discrepancy in available resources (Britain of course having complete sea control) it it little wonder that perhaps a greater percentage of native carriers died under the Germans. Yet the massive numerical advantages enjoyed by the Commonwealth troops also ensured that they used many more carriers, many of whom died. He cites the German suppression of native rebellions before the war as particularly cruel and there is little doubt they were. I am so sick of British Empire lovers and apologists condemning other colonialists (Belgian, Portuguese as well come under his strict disapproval), while smugly extolling the virtues of life for natives under the heel of the Britain. While he concludes with a few more well-aimed barbs at the savage Germans we get no sense that he has even heard of the British concentration camps in the Boer War, the Mau-Mau rebellion gulags, the bloody suppression of the Sepoy rebellion, the semi-deliberate extermination of Irish people, etc, etc. Get OFF your high-horse Englishman!
I wanted to give this more stars for he does an admirable job in covering with excellent detail this largely unknown campaign. The numerous maps are a plus although not all place names in the text are on the maps (or I could not locate them.) Orders of battle are apparently complete and the descriptions of the unit actions serviceable, if not very inspiring. Like many a British apologist however he slips badly in his repeated attempts to paint the 'Empire' (you know which one) in a comparatively favorable light...vis-a-vis the 'evil' Germans. He begrudgingly acknowledges the superior performance of the German officers and their outstanding aksari. But only by painting them first as heartless exploiters of native peoples, in contrast to the far more humane and enlightened world administered by the good old Empire. Given the huge discrepancy in available resources (Britain of course having complete sea control) it it little wonder that perhaps a greater percentage of native carriers died under the Germans. Yet the massive numerical advantages enjoyed by the Commonwealth troops also ensured that they used many more carriers, many of whom died. He cites the German suppression of native rebellions before the war as particularly cruel and there is little doubt they were. I am so sick of British Empire lovers and apologists condemning other colonialists (Belgian, Portuguese as well come under his strict disapproval), while smugly extolling the virtues of life for natives under the heel of the Britain. While he concludes with a few more well-aimed barbs at the savage Germans we get no sense that he has even heard of the British concentration camps in the Boer War, the Mau-Mau rebellion gulags, the bloody suppression of the Sepoy rebellion, the semi-deliberate extermination of Irish people, etc, etc. Get OFF your high-horse Englishman!
July 27, 2019
The "Great War in Africa" encompassed a large number of countries, including Togo, Cameroon, German West Africa (now Namibia), and German East Africa (now mostly part of Tanzania, but at the time also incorporating Ruanda and Urundi - as they were spelled then). The title should have included "East"; all but a few sentences dealt with the war in East Africa, British, German, and Portuguese.
The stories of von Lettow-Vorbeck's 4-year campaign to tie up British Imperial forces is fairly well known, but the "Untold Tragedy" part of the title refers to the fate of the hundreds of thousands of carriers who carried supplies for the various armies, and died in their tens of thousand - or more - supporting the armed forces. Since the book was written, "The World's War" by David Olusoga has added a lot more to this story, while covering the rest of the world as well.
I found the book to be very thorough and well-researched. At times, I thought that there was too much detail but that is the nature of this type of history. The maps were useful, though a better map of Portuguese East Africa would have been handy.
As for von Lettow-Vorbeck's exploits, I have a better appreciation for how he was able to operate a guerilla campaign for as long as he did, through a combination of inventiveness, drive, cunning, and luck. On the other hand, his goal was always to draw in as many British Imperial troops as he could, to prevent them from fighting Germany elsewhere, and so he had different objectives that the British did. All he had to do was to survive to fight another day, on territory that he knew well, while the British had to try to winkle out every last one of the Germans. The territories that von Lettow-Vorbeck roamed around in were as large as Ontario and Manitoba (about 2 million square km), a very large haystack for a bunch of needles.
The stories of von Lettow-Vorbeck's 4-year campaign to tie up British Imperial forces is fairly well known, but the "Untold Tragedy" part of the title refers to the fate of the hundreds of thousands of carriers who carried supplies for the various armies, and died in their tens of thousand - or more - supporting the armed forces. Since the book was written, "The World's War" by David Olusoga has added a lot more to this story, while covering the rest of the world as well.
I found the book to be very thorough and well-researched. At times, I thought that there was too much detail but that is the nature of this type of history. The maps were useful, though a better map of Portuguese East Africa would have been handy.
As for von Lettow-Vorbeck's exploits, I have a better appreciation for how he was able to operate a guerilla campaign for as long as he did, through a combination of inventiveness, drive, cunning, and luck. On the other hand, his goal was always to draw in as many British Imperial troops as he could, to prevent them from fighting Germany elsewhere, and so he had different objectives that the British did. All he had to do was to survive to fight another day, on territory that he knew well, while the British had to try to winkle out every last one of the Germans. The territories that von Lettow-Vorbeck roamed around in were as large as Ontario and Manitoba (about 2 million square km), a very large haystack for a bunch of needles.
November 3, 2018
I had enjoyed an earlier book by Edward Paice on Ewart Grogan but was disappointed by this effort. The title for starters overreaches itself; it would be more accurate to call it 'The First World War in German East Africa' as campaigns in other parts of the continent are only mentioned in passing. The book is essentially a highly detailed military account of every battle and skirmish along with troop movements that took place during the war. If this your sort of thing, then you will enjoy it but it made for a very slow read for me.
The larger picture is ignored and I didn't emerge from it with any deeper understanding of say the lifestyles of civilian colonials or how Africans viewed this conflict. It was however, thoroughly researched and the book comes replete with photographs and more importantly, several maps. I wish more historians would remember that. Tip and Run is really only recommended for the initiated. Anyone new to this period of history should look elsewhere first.
The larger picture is ignored and I didn't emerge from it with any deeper understanding of say the lifestyles of civilian colonials or how Africans viewed this conflict. It was however, thoroughly researched and the book comes replete with photographs and more importantly, several maps. I wish more historians would remember that. Tip and Run is really only recommended for the initiated. Anyone new to this period of history should look elsewhere first.
August 12, 2019
Excellent accounting of the Great War impact on the colonial powers in Africa. The British empire mostly represented by Indian and South African troops; with an on again off again alliance with Portugal verses the German settlers and their native African troops. With the odds stacked in the British favor this side show to the main event in Europe was expected to last months. Instead it lasted for three and a half years. One resupply ship made it through the Brtish blockade causing the Germans to have to live off the land which caused serious problems to the natives. This is one of the best accounts of this part of World War I that is seldom talked about.
July 25, 2021
Comprehensive, requiring too much investment for a casual reader.
Often descending to too low-level of detail at the cost of reading enjoyment it does give a very even-handed treatment of the opponents and doesn't neglect the high price paid by the natives impressed and coerced into participating and suffering disastrously.
It provides a very interesting insight into Jan Smuts at a time so soon after the Boer War, now an Empire enthusiast and a man with a keen eye for the main chance, after commanding early on, pretty much declaring victory with two years left in the campaign and escaping to London.
Often descending to too low-level of detail at the cost of reading enjoyment it does give a very even-handed treatment of the opponents and doesn't neglect the high price paid by the natives impressed and coerced into participating and suffering disastrously.
It provides a very interesting insight into Jan Smuts at a time so soon after the Boer War, now an Empire enthusiast and a man with a keen eye for the main chance, after commanding early on, pretty much declaring victory with two years left in the campaign and escaping to London.
April 5, 2022
A competent campaign history which falls well short of being fully satisfying. If you want mostly to know so and so ordered this battalion to march here and they fought and such... you could do far worse, to be sure, but it felt like it mostly failed to engage much deeper than that, especially in the complete failure to have more than a handful of African voices speak out, despite the conflict impacting their lives so thoroughly, both as combatants, bystanders, and victims. I've read far worse books, to be sure, but I've read far better, and in what it leaves out this one fails to live up to what it could have been.
December 11, 2019
This book presents a lot of fascinating events that are very well researched and detailed. However, that seems to be a bit of its down fall as well as it does get bogged down in a level of detail that (in my opinion) a non expert reader would need or care about. Some times I feel empathy for the author's academic tendency to present all the information, but more often I find myself skipping passages. There is a wealth of information regarding WWI in German East Africa (mostly today Tanzania) and related support efforts though, if that is what you are looking for.
October 29, 2024
My goal with reading is to learn something new. I achieved that goal with this book. That being said, I was never gripped or intrigued to find out what was going to happen next. I was just waiting for the book to end, but I learned so much about this kind of forgotten, stowed-away bit of history: the First World War in East Africa. I think you would enjoy and benefit more from this book if you have a background knowledge of the colonization of Africa.
March 14, 2022
Excellent history of a neglected theater of WW1 that left Germany undefeated in the field, and which had devastating consequences for Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the east. Book is dense, don't expect a light read, but nonetheless spectacular.
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May 18, 2022I am pretty sure I started reading but never finished.
November 24, 2023
Informative history, definitely ran a little long
March 12, 2017
As a teenager growing up in northern Tanzania and even taking a memorable camping trip up Mount Longido to visit the World War I German trenches in the mid-1970s, I had read books on World War I and the exploits of the German commander, Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck. The book begins with some excellent maps of the conflict but the writing becomes exhaustive. His research was very thorough, using archives all through Europe. The book primarily tells the story from the side of the British and South African troops and gives a good sense of how the battles went each year. Still, the detail was often too much, and I found myself skimming through the chapters. Though the book is somewhat old now (kind of like me), Charles Miller's BATTLE FOR THE BUNDU, captures the feel of the war in a more readable way.
May 17, 2015
When reading about World War I, you get several obvious topics: Western Front, Gallipoli, America entering the war, Jutland, etc. So when I saw this book about the African front at my library, I grabbed. The European powers had carved up Africa in the late 1800s into different colonies and World War I gave countries a chance to grab even more. Only Germany in the Central Powers had African colonies and lost all but one in the beginning of the war. General Lettow-Vorbeck on the other hand kept fighting for 4 years and tied down thousands of Allied troops. The author gets a bit too detailed in describing battles and I really disliked having all the maps in the beginning of the book. What really fascinated and saddened me was the greater cost of the war. While the casualties for the soldiers on both sides were horrific, both sides also used Africans in their colonies as porters. Widespread disease and famine killed hundreds of thousands more. The Germans also tried to start a religious war against the British. Very interesting read on a topic almost never covered.
January 23, 2013
I enjoyed this book, I have read many other Great War books about the war in Europe or the Middle East. I was surprised by the numbers of non-combatants who died, used for carrying all weapons and supplies, far outnumbering the soldiers and virtually slaves, although the British did offer a wage! As in some other reviews the maps were not much use, very small print and only at the front of the book,it would have been much better to have smaller maps throughout the book. The Germans certainly gave the Allies the run-around. The men of that conflict were a different breed, walking thousands of miles during the 5 years of campaigning.
A worthwhile read to give a different perspective on the Great War
A worthwhile read to give a different perspective on the Great War
January 29, 2013
I never knew about the colonial battles that took place. This is my first book on the subject so I am rating it high. If I continue to study this WWI theater, I may change my opinion. In other words this was a starter for me.
I do recommend this as an overview of German East Africa WWI history. Other areas were touched upon, but the focus was exclusively East Africa.
I enjoyed it and recommend it.
I do recommend this as an overview of German East Africa WWI history. Other areas were touched upon, but the focus was exclusively East Africa.
I enjoyed it and recommend it.
April 2, 2015
A highly detailed account one of the First World War's most obscure fronts, Paice's African Front is not for those with little interest in military history or the faint of hearth. Paice critically analyzes the actions of Germany, Britain, and other Allied powers. While capture a dignity and honor that quickly vanished along the Western Front, the book delivers a message that German East Africa and the effort to subdue it possessed its own set of horrors.
September 30, 2016
An illuminating read on a little known corner of WW1, where it was far more dangerous to be a native carrier that an actual combatant. Paice covers the whole campaign and in provides some serious information on a little explored area, but the book sometimes bogs down in too much detail and can be a slog in places. That said, Paice is to be applauded for undertaking the book in the first place and in the depth he has.
October 15, 2010
Well written but biased account on the fascinating but overlooked campaign during the First World War. The author's failure to give Lettow-Vorbeck his due is like writing about the Napoleonic Wars and barely mentioning Napoleon.
September 8, 2013
Very detailed account of the battles in East Africa and the German resistance that lasted long after German East Africa was lost. Wished there was a bit more tie in with the narrative of what was going on in the other German colonies, but good read none the less.
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