TIP AND RUNThe Untold Tragedy of The Great War in Africa

The full, fantastic story of German General Lettow-Vorbeck’s classic guerilla campaign in East Africa throughout the Great War that ran rings around the Allies up to and after the Armistice.

This magnificent book tells the full story of one of the strangest yet most heroic campaigns of the Great War - the struggle in East Africa that pitted a German guerilla leader of genius and his tiny army against the might of the British Empire. Historian Edward Paice - himself an old Africa hand, knows the terrain over which this bizarre campaign was fought and tells its story well. Lettow-Vorbeck, the governor of German East Africa, kept the Allied forces sent against him at bay with his army of German-officered local Askaris by classic guerilla tactics of boldness, deception, flexibility and improvisation - notably when he cannibalised a beached German warship for her guns and ammunition. Even after another great guerilla chief - the Boer War General Jan Smuts - was sent against him, Lettow continued to run rings around his enemy, and was still undefeated when the Armistice was signed in distant Europe. This is the true story of a sideshow that became an epic.

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Product Code:	12251
Author:	Edward Paice
Format:	HB. B&W photographs and maps. Published Price £25
Shipping Time:	This item is usually dispatched Next Day
Retail Price:	~~£25.00~~
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