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Book Tanganyikan Guerrilla  East African Campaign 1914 18

Download or read book Tanganyikan Guerrilla East African Campaign 1914 18 written by J.R. Sibley and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tanganyikan Guerrilla  East African Campaign 1914 18

Download or read book Tanganyikan Guerrilla East African Campaign 1914 18 written by J. R. Sibley and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tanganyikan Guerrilla  East African Campaign 1914 18

Download or read book Tanganyikan Guerrilla East African Campaign 1914 18 written by Major J R. Sibley and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Forgotten Front

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  • Author : Ross Anderson
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2014-08-04
  • ISBN : 0750958731
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book The Forgotten Front written by Ross Anderson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War began in East Africa in August 1914 and did not end until 13 November 1918. In its scale and impact, it was the largest conflict yet to take place on African soil. Four empires and their subject peoples were engaged in a conflict that ranged from modern Kenya in the north to Mozambique in the south. The campaign combined heroic human endeavour and terrible suffering, set in some of the most difficult terrain in the world. The troops had to cope with extremes that ranged from arid deserts to tropical jungles and formidable mountains, and almost always on inadequate rations. Yet the East African campaign has languished in undeserved obscurity over the years, with many people only vaguely aware of its course of events. Indeed, Humphrey Bogart's famous film, The African Queen, inspired by an episode of the campaign, often provides its only lasting image. The Forgotten Front is the first full-scale history of this neglected campaign. Ross Anderson details the fighting and the strategic and political background to the war and the differing viewpoints of the principal protagonists.

Book Guerillas of Tsavo

Download or read book Guerillas of Tsavo written by James G. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The East Africa Campaign 1914   18

Download or read book The East Africa Campaign 1914 18 written by David Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, beautifully illustrated study of the daring war in East Africa waged by German colonial forces under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck against the wide array of colonial and expeditionary forces of the Allied Powers. The East African Campaign in World War I comprised a series of battles and guerrilla actions which began in German East Africa in 1914 and spread to portions of Portuguese Mozambique, northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, the Uganda Protectorate, and the Belgian Congo. German colonial forces under Lieutenant-Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck attempt to divert Allied forces from the Western Front. Despite the efforts of the Allied forces, Lettow-Vorbeck's troops remained undefeated at the end of the war. In this fascinating work, David Smith documents how a wide array of British, Indian, South African, Belgian, Portuguese and local native forces invaded German East Africa and slowly ousted the German forces, a process made tortuous by Lettow-Vorbeck's masterful management of the campaign. Among the events covered in this work are the Battle of Tanga, the scuttling of the Königsberg, the German railway campaign, and the battles at Salaita Hill, Kondoa-Irangi, Mahenge, Mahiwa and Namacurra. Colourful period and specially commissioned illustrations bring to life a wide-ranging and eventful campaign in which a high price was extracted for every inch of ground given up.

Book My Reminiscences of East Africa

Download or read book My Reminiscences of East Africa written by General von Lettow-Vorbeck and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Reminiscences of East Africa is an autobiography by General von Lettow-Vorbeck. Von Lettow was a German military leader in East Africa during WWI, known for his adaptation of guerrilla tactics and unconventional methods.

Book The Chiwaya War

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  • Author : Melvin E Page
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-07-11
  • ISBN : 1000315436
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Chiwaya War written by Melvin E Page and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the great War's effect on Africa in general and Malawi in particular. It describes the outbreak of the war, the recruitment of soldiers, the drafting of porters, the conditions of military life, the conditions on the home front, and the war's end.

Book Soldiers and Settlers in Africa  1850 1918

Download or read book Soldiers and Settlers in Africa 1850 1918 written by Stephen Miller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits some of the most significant guerrilla struggles of the late 19th century, all set in Africa, and remind readers, in light of current events, the difficulties involved in engaging in this type of conflict.

Book Guerilla

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  • Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
  • Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Guerilla written by Edwin Palmer Hoyt and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1914, Major Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was the commander of the German Protective Force in German East Africa, with a mere 2,000 troops -- most of them Black Askaris -- and weapons that dated back to the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870's. When World War I began in August, Governor Heinrich Schnee surrendered to the British at Dar-es-Salaam, but von Lettow refused to accept the surrender. Instead he took up arms against the British, and after the war was over, it was evident he could have beaten the British in Africa if the Germans had not lost in Europe

Book Duel for Kilimanjaro

Download or read book Duel for Kilimanjaro written by Leonard Mosley and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 266 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 Military Intelligence

Download or read book Military Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperialism and its Contradictions

Download or read book Imperialism and its Contradictions written by Harvey Kaye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.G. Kiernan is recognized as one of the most remarkable historians of the twentieth century. Eric Hobsbawm says of Kiernan that his knowledge is "encyclopedic" and Edward Said refers to his writings on imperialism as "milestones." In Imperialism and Its Contradictions, Kiernan critically addresses the origins, consequences and legacies of modern imperialism and colonialism, discussing the imperial experience in its totality. Sensitive to the tragic and ironic character of human history, Kiernan considers and reflects upon the political, economic and cultural dimensions of the imperial experience and how it has shaped the lives and social orders of Europeans and non-Europeans alike. Issues treated in Imperialism and Its Contradictions include the question of the relationship between the rise of capitalism and the making of Europe's overseas empires; the creation of colonial armies and their political uses; the dialectic of imperialism and revolution; the impact of imperialism on European culture; and the social and cultural problems confronting a post-imperial and multicultural Britain. The book also includes Kiernan's discussion of the work of Antonio Gramsci and its implications for the study of imperialism.

Book The Great War in Africa  1914 1918

Download or read book The Great War in Africa 1914 1918 written by Byron Farwell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present the state of the art in the rapidly growing field of visualization as related to problems in urban and regional planning. The significance and timeliness of this volume consist in its reflection of several developments in literature and the challenges cities are facing. First, the unsustainability of many of our current paradigms of development has become evidently clear. We are entering an era in which communities across the globe are strengthening their connections to the global flows of capital, goods, ideas, technologies and values while facing at the same time serious dislocations in their traditional socioeconomic structures. While the impending scenarios of climate change impacts remind us about the integrated ecological system that we are part of, the current discussions about global recession in the media alert us and make us aware of the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated and hyper-complex socioeconomic-ecological system is difficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without effective visualization tools. Given that planners are at the frontlines in the effort to prepare as well as build resilience in the impacted communities, appropriate visualization tools are indispensable for effective planning. Second, planners have largely been slow to incorporate the advances in visualization research emerging from other domains of inquiry.

Book The Greater War

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  • Author : Jonathan Kraus
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2014-10-31
  • ISBN : 1137360666
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Greater War written by Jonathan Kraus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greater War is an international history of the First World War. Comprising of thirteen chapters this collection of essays covers new aspects of the French, German, Italian and American efforts in the First World War, as well as aspects of Britain's colonial campaigns.

Book Brothers in War

Download or read book Brothers in War written by Michael Walsh and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers in War is the immensely powerful and deeply tragic story of the Beechey brothers, and how they paid the ultimate price for King and country. All eight went to fight in the Great War on such far-flung battlefields as France, Flanders, East Africa and Gallipoli. Only three would return alive. Even amid the carnage of the trenches, it was a family trauma almost without parallel. Their wives and sweethearts were left bereft, their widowed mother Amy devastated. It is a tragedy that has remained forgotten and unmarked for nearly 90 years. Until now. Kept in a small brown case handed down by the brothers' youngest sister, Edie, were hundreds of letters sent home from the front by the Beechey boys: scraps of paper scribbled on in the firing line, heartfelt messages written from a deathbed, exasperated correspondences detailing the absurdities of life in the trenches. From it all emerges the remarkable tale of the lost brothers. Tragic and moving, poetic in its intensity, Brothers in War reveals first-hand the catastrophe that was the Great War; all told through one family forced to sacrifice everything.