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Book My 3  Campaign in East Africa

Download or read book My 3 Campaign in East Africa written by W. Salter Price and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book East Africa Campaign 1940   41

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pier Paolo Battistelli
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2024-12-19
  • ISBN : 1472860705
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book East Africa Campaign 1940 41 written by Pier Paolo Battistelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-12-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for control of the Horn of Africa. In mid-1940, Italy's East African colonies posed a significant threat to the British Empire, and in particular to the flow of supplies through the Red Sea to Egypt. British High Command feared moves from Italian East Africa and so sent reinforcements to its positions in Kenya and Sudan. Thus began a series of clashes across East Africa, with the British attempting to keep the Italians isolated and unable to threaten British supply lines. In March 1941, British theatre commander General Archibald Wavell opted for a lightning campaign to eliminate the Italian threat for good. Italian military historian Pier Paolo Battistelli provides a fresh account of this campaign, from the initial Italian attacks to the Allied counter-offensive into Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland. Among the actions covered are Addis Ababa, Amba Alagi, Gondar, Tug Argan, and Keren. This work presents an assessment of the forces involved of both sides, including Orde Wingate's Gideon force, pro-Selassié Ethiopian irregulars and Eritrean and Somalian troops, as well as Indian, South African, British and Italian regular forces. With colourful artwork, detailed maps and diagrams, this book highlights an overlooked World War II campaign and the bloody fight for the Horn of Africa.

Book Sketches of the East Africa Campaign

Download or read book Sketches of the East Africa Campaign written by Robert Valentine Dolbey and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sketches of the East Africa Campaign" is a collection of sketches portraying the World war one battles fought in the East African colonies between British and German troops. Author and British Captain Robert V. Dolbey explains, "These sketches of General Smuts' campaign of 1916 in German East Africa, do not presume to give an accurate account of the tactical or strategic events of this war. The actual knowledge of the happenings of war and of the considerations that persuade an Army Commander to any course of military conduct must, of necessity, be a closed book to the individual soldier. To the fighting man himself and to the man on the lines of communication, who helps to feed and clothe and arm and doctor him, the history of his particular war is very meagre. War, to the soldier, is limited to the very narrow horizon of his front, the daily work of his regiment, or, at the most, of his brigade..."

Book Some Notes on Tactics in the East African Campaign

Download or read book Some Notes on Tactics in the East African Campaign written by Seymour Hulbert Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Reminiscences of East Africa

Download or read book My Reminiscences of East Africa written by Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964) was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign. For four years, with a force that never exceeded about 14,000 (3,000 Germans and 11,000 Africans), he held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Belgian, and Portuguese troops. Essentially undefeated in the field, von Lettow-Vorbeck was the only German commander to successfully invade imperial British soil during World War I. His exploits in the campaign have come down "as the greatest single guerrilla operation in history, and the most successful." [Source: Wikipedia]

Book Three Years of War in East Africa  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Three Years of War in East Africa Classic Reprint written by Angus Buchanan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Three Years of War in East Africa The author does not harp overmuch on the sickness and privations of his comrades - The has been through too many of them to do so; but I am reminded of the remark of one of them during the not infrequent periods of grousing which every respectable British soldier must have. Ah, I wish to h I was in France! There one lives like a gentleman and dies like a man, here one lives like a pig and dies like a dog. There may have been something in this remark, yet I have thought as I saw the 25th staggering on, absolutely in rags, many with fever actually on them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Sketches of the East Africa Campaign

Download or read book Sketches of the East Africa Campaign written by Capt Robert V Dolbey R a M C and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These sketches of General Smuts' campaign of 1916 in German East Africa, do not presume to give an accurate account of the tactical or strategical events of this war. The actual knowledge of the happenings of war and of the considerations that persuade an Army Commander to any course of military conduct must, of necessity, be a closed book to the individual soldier. To the fighting man himself and to the man on the lines of communication, who helps to feed and clothe and arm and doctor him, the history of his particular war is very meagre. War, to the soldier, is limited to the very narrow horizon of his front, the daily work of his regiment, or, at the most, of his brigade. Rarely does news from the rest of one brigade spread to the troops of another in the field. Only in the hospital that serves the division are the events of his bit of war correlated and reduced to a comprehensive whole. Even then the resulting knowledge is usually wrong. For the imagination of officers, and of men in particular, is wonderful, and rumour has its birthplace in the hospital ward. One may take it as an established fact that the ordinary regimental officer or soldier knows little or nothing about events other than his particular bit of country. Only the Staff know, and they will not tell. Sometimes we have thought that all the real news lives in the cloistered brain of the General and his Chief of Staff. Be this as it may, we always got fuller and better correlated and co-ordinated news of the German East African Campaign from "Reuter" or from The Times weekly edition.

Book The First Victory

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  • Author : Andrew Stewart
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300208553
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book The First Victory written by Andrew Stewart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Commonwealth forces completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa against an overwhelmingly superior Italian opponent. A hastily formed British-led force, never larger than 70,000 strong, advanced along two fronts to defeat nearly 300,000 Italian and colonial troops. This compelling book draws on an array of previously unseen documents to provide both a detailed campaign history and a fresh appreciation of the first significant Allied success of the war. Andrew Stewart investigates such topics as Britain's African wartime strategy; how the fighting forces were assembled (most from British colonies, none from the U.S.); General Archibald Wavell's command abilities and his difficult relationship with Winston Churchill; the resolute Italian defense at Keren, one of the most bitterly fought battles of the entire war; the legacy of the campaign in East Africa; and much more.

Book The Campaign in German East Africa

Download or read book The Campaign in German East Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sketches of the East Africa Campaign

Download or read book Sketches of the East Africa Campaign written by Robert V. Dolbey (Capt.) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Some Notes on Tactics in the East African Campaign

Download or read book Some Notes on Tactics in the East African Campaign written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book General Smuts  Campaign in East Africa

Download or read book General Smuts Campaign in East Africa written by John Henry Verinder Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chiwaya War

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  • Author : Melvin Page
  • Publisher : African Books Collective
  • Release : 2022-02-28
  • ISBN : 9996066630
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The Chiwaya War written by Melvin Page and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chiwaya War's basic conclusions are that the First World War was a major turning point in the history of Malawi's peoples, creating the first glimmers of a shared national identity; and that it marked, more than any event before or since, the entry of Malawians into the emerging modern world system far more quickly than likely they, and certainly even the most enlightened British colonial administrators of the time, would have preferred.

Book East Africa Campaign 1940   41

Download or read book East Africa Campaign 1940 41 written by Pier Paolo Battistelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-12-19 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for control of the Horn of Africa. In mid-1940, Italy's East African colonies posed a significant threat to the British Empire, and in particular to the flow of supplies through the Red Sea to Egypt. British High Command feared moves from Italian East Africa and so sent reinforcements to its positions in Kenya and Sudan. Thus began a series of clashes across East Africa, with the British attempting to keep the Italians isolated and unable to threaten British supply lines. In March 1941, British theatre commander General Archibald Wavell opted for a lightning campaign to eliminate the Italian threat for good. Italian military historian Pier Paolo Battistelli provides a fresh account of this campaign, from the initial Italian attacks to the Allied counter-offensive into Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland. Among the actions covered are Addis Ababa, Amba Alagi, Gondar, Tug Argan, and Keren. This work presents an assessment of the forces involved of both sides, including Orde Wingate's Gideon force, pro-Selassié Ethiopian irregulars and Eritrean and Somalian troops, as well as Indian, South African, British and Italian regular forces. With colourful artwork, detailed maps and diagrams, this book highlights an overlooked World War II campaign and the bloody fight for the Horn of Africa.

Book World s War Events  Vol  1 3

Download or read book World s War Events Vol 1 3 written by Various Authors and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features a collection of articles and official accounts and records on events of the First World War (1914-1918), contemporaneously known as the Great War or "the war to end all wars", which was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated nine million combatant deaths and 13 million civilian deaths as a direct result of the war, while resulting genocides and the related 1918 Spanish flu pandemic caused another 17-100 million deaths worldwide._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ What Caused the War_x000D_ The Defense of Liège_x000D_ The Great Retreat_x000D_ The Battle of the Marne_x000D_ How the French Fought_x000D_ The Race for the Channel_x000D_ The Last Ditch in Belgium_x000D_ Why Turkey Entered the War_x000D_ The Falkland Sea Fight_x000D_ Cruise of the Emden_x000D_ Capture of Tsing-Tao_x000D_ Gallipoli_x000D_ Gas: Second Battle of Ypres_x000D_ The Canadians at Ypres_x000D_ Sinking of the Lusitania_x000D_ Mountain Warfare_x000D_ The Great Champagne Offensive of 1915_x000D_ The Tragedy of Edith Cavell_x000D_ Gallipoli Abandoned_x000D_ The Death-Ship in the Sky_x000D_ The Battle of Verdun_x000D_ The Battle of Jutland Bank_x000D_ Taking the Col di Lana_x000D_ The Battle of the Somme_x000D_ Russia's Refugees_x000D_ The Tragedy of Rumania_x000D_ Sixteen Months a War Prisoner_x000D_ Under German Rule in France and Belgium_x000D_ The Anglo-Russian Campaign in Turkey_x000D_ Kitchener_x000D_ Why America Broke with Germany_x000D_ How the War Came to America_x000D_ The War Message_x000D_ British Operations at Saloniki_x000D_ In Petrograd During the Seven Days_x000D_ America's First Shot_x000D_ German Activities in the United States_x000D_ Preparing for War_x000D_ The Capture of Jerusalem_x000D_ American Ships and German Submarines_x000D_ A Destroyer in Active Service_x000D_ East Africa_x000D_ Greece's Atonement_x000D_ The Italians at Bay_x000D_ Bottling up Zeebrugge and Ostend_x000D_ With the American Submarines_x000D_ Wounded Heroes of France_x000D_ The Battle of Picardy_x000D_ Bulgaria Quits_x000D_ The Fighting Czecho-Slovaks_x000D_ Six Days on the American Firing Line_x000D_ An American Battlefield_x000D_ Night Raids from the Air_x000D_ The American Army in Europe_x000D_ The American Navy In Europe_x000D_ Armistice Terms Signed by Germany_x000D_ Covenant of the League of Nations_x000D_ Treaty of Peace with Germany_x000D_ Treaty of Peace with Austria

Book Sketches of the East Africa Campaign     With Illustrations

Download or read book Sketches of the East Africa Campaign With Illustrations written by Robert Valentine Dolbey and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History and Encyclopaedia of the War

Download or read book History and Encyclopaedia of the War written by Times (London) (Newspaper) and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: