GREAT WAR IN WEST AFRICA

The campaign in West Africa is overshadowed by the more famous fight against the elusive German genius of guerrilla warfare, General von Lettow-Vorbeck in East Africa. This account by the British commander in West Africa, Brigadier-General E Howard Gorges, redresses the balance. Gorges describes the Anglo-French invasion and occupation of Togoland, Germany's West African colony, and the more difficult and protracted operations against the German Cameroons - on land, as well as at sea. It took the Allies until January 1916 to eliminate German resistance and chase the remaining German forces into neutral territory. With four appendices listing officers serving, Orders of Battle etc. Reprint of the original edition.