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The vast military campaigns in Africa during World War I were among the most ambitious of the Great War. Many histories, however, have regarded these campaigns as side-shows to the war on the Western Front. World War One in Africa looks afresh at the impact of the strategy of the German and Allied campaigns, and at the great rivalry between General Jan Christian Smuts, who took on the German forces in East Africa, and General Lettow-Vorbeck, celebrated as the only German general to occupy British territory and whose troops finished the war undefeated. Using primary material from British and South African archives, this book is a detailed study of the giants of the campaign, and the battles which would shape the outcome of the Great War as well as the future of the African continent and the British Empire.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Position on the eve of war
Chapter 2: To war, 1914
Chapter 3: The outbreak of war: Southern Africa, 1914
Chapter 4: German South West Africa, Angola and Southern Africa - 1915
Chapter 5: War on the waters and in the air - 1915-1917
Chapter 6: East Africa 1915-1917
Chapter 7: Personal, personnel and materiel
Chapter 8: Last days - 1918
Chapter 9: Behind the scenes - 1915-1918
Chapter 10: The war in London - 1915-1917
Chapter 11: All for what?
Chapter 12: Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Forces Index
Person Index
Place Index
General Index
