FORGOTTEN FRONT 1914-18: The East African Campaign

RIveting and detailed account of a classic guerilla campaign famous from the film The African Queen and the novel An Ice Cream War. Explains how the brilliant German CO, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, kept the Allies guessing and his tiny army in being until after the war had ended.

In most people’s eyes the Great War means the trenches of the Western Front. This book gives a detailed account of one of that conflict’s forgotten fronts : the gruelling yet militarily fascinating campaign fought in East Africa. The German aim was to keep Allied forces and resources tied down in the in hospitable terrain in and around their colony of German East Africa - today’s Tanzania .In that aim they largely succeeded, since their forces - under a guerilla leader of genius, the Prussian aristocrat Col. Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck - did not surrender until Von Lettow-Vorbeck was reluctantly persuaded on 13th November 1918 that the war had ended three days before. The war he skilfully fought against Imperial armies from South Africa, India and B ritain itself, was a hit and run affair of small battles and ambushes in which the classic guerilla tactics of speed, improvisation, deception, and mobility were all utilised. Disease, climate and a hostile landscape claimed more casualties than the fighting itself, but Lettow-Vorbeck’s forces, heavily outnumbered and consisting mainly of African Askaris with German officers, led the Allies a merry dance across high mountains and through dense jungles and arid deserts. This book is an authoritative and exciting account of a classic campaign in guerilla warfare.

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Product Code:	10632
Author:	Ross Anderson
Format:	351pp, b/w illustrations, maps, sb. Published Price £12.99
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