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AUTHOR: Thornhill, C
FORMAT: 288pp 22 Bw Pb
Experiences of an Intelligence officer, 1914-1918. The Great War in East Africa is a "side-show" campaign that has acquired legendary status. The German Military Governor in today's Tanzania, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, was a guerrilla leader of genius and, with a staff of white officers and a small army of Africans, the loyal Askaris, he ran rings around vastly superior allied forces - not least around another famous guerrilla leader, South Africa's Jan Smuts. This interesting book casts new light upon the campaign, since its author, unlike many of his brother officers, was an old East Africa hand and knew the terrain where the war was fought well. His breezy and charming account does not seek to gloss over the many difficulties and frustrations of the campaign, nor to glamorise his own role in it - which included one hair-raising expedition behind the enemy's lines. Reprint of the original edition.
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