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Books : World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940
EAN: 9781933648903
ISBN: 1933648902
Label: Pegasus
Manufacturer: Pegasus
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: September 08, 2008
Publisher: Pegasus
Studio: Pegasus
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Editorial Review:
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The definitive history of World War I's forgotten front: Britain versus Germany in East Africa to secure the belly of a continent.
On August 7, 1914, Britain fired its first shots of World War I not in Europe but in the German colony of Togo. The campaign to eliminate the threat at sea posed by German naval bases in Africa would soon be won, but in the land war, especially in East Africa, British troops would meet far fiercer resistance from German colonial forces that had fully mastered the tactics of bush warfare. It was expected to be a "small war," over by Christmas, yet it would continue bloodily for more than four years, even beyond the signing of the Armistice in Europe.
Its costs were immense, its butchery staggering (in excess of100,000 British troops and 45,000 native recruits dead). Utmost among the tragic consequences, though, was the waste laid to the land and its indigenous peoples in what one official historian described as "a war of extermination and attrition without parallel in modern times." Imperialism had gone calamitously amok.
This eye-opening account of the Great War in East Africa does not flinch at the daily horrors of an ill-fated campaign—not just the combat but also a hostile climate, disease, the terrible loneliness—nor does it fail to recount tales of extraordinary courage and the kind of adventure that inspired fiction like C. S. Forester's The African Queen, William Boyd's An Ice-Cream War, and Wilbur Smith's Shout at the Devil. In all, it demonstrates dramatically why even the most hardened of Great War soldiers preferred the trenches of France to the trauma of East Africa.
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- The best by far
The Great War in Africa has very few books to define it, and in some cases the better books are just windows into particular experiences. Not so with Paice's book... it treats the war in Africa as the epic that it was and deals with it in all its shades.
During the 19th Century the continent of Africa was almost entirely divided up amongst the European powers (and the Ottoman Empire) and so when the Great War broke out in 1914 and caused all the European powers to be drawn in as well ... Read More
Rating: - The battlefield extended to every corner of the globe
It was called a 'World War' because it seemed that for the first time in recorded human history, the battlefield extended to every corner of the globe. Written by former Cambridge history scholar Edward Paice, World War I The African Front: An Imperial War on the African Continent is an in-depth historical chronicle of the East African front of World War I. Though British troops quickly overwhelmed the threat of German naval bases in Africa, the land war would prove to be much more deadly to troops ... Read More
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World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent
by: Edward Paice
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940
EAN: 9781933648903
ISBN: 1933648902
Label: Pegasus
Manufacturer: Pegasus
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: September 08, 2008
Publisher: Pegasus
Studio: Pegasus
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The definitive history of World War I's forgotten front: Britain versus Germany in East Africa to secure the belly of a continent.
On August 7, 1914, Britain fired its first shots of World War I not in Europe but in the German colony of Togo. The campaign to eliminate the threat at sea posed by German naval bases in Africa would soon be won, but in the land war, especially in East Africa, British troops would meet far fiercer resistance from German colonial forces that had fully mastered the tactics of bush warfare. It was expected to be a "small war," over by Christmas, yet it would continue bloodily for more than four years, even beyond the signing of the Armistice in Europe.
Its costs were immense, its butchery staggering (in excess of100,000 British troops and 45,000 native recruits dead). Utmost among the tragic consequences, though, was the waste laid to the land and its indigenous peoples in what one official historian described as "a war of extermination and attrition without parallel in modern times." Imperialism had gone calamitously amok.
This eye-opening account of the Great War in East Africa does not flinch at the daily horrors of an ill-fated campaign—not just the combat but also a hostile climate, disease, the terrible loneliness—nor does it fail to recount tales of extraordinary courage and the kind of adventure that inspired fiction like C. S. Forester's The African Queen, William Boyd's An Ice-Cream War, and Wilbur Smith's Shout at the Devil. In all, it demonstrates dramatically why even the most hardened of Great War soldiers preferred the trenches of France to the trauma of East Africa.
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Rating:
- The best by farThe Great War in Africa has very few books to define it, and in some cases the better books are just windows into particular experiences. Not so with Paice's book... it treats the war in Africa as the epic that it was and deals with it in all its shades.
During the 19th Century the continent of Africa was almost entirely divided up amongst the European powers (and the Ottoman Empire) and so when the Great War broke out in 1914 and caused all the European powers to be drawn in as well ... Read More
Rating:
- The battlefield extended to every corner of the globeIt was called a 'World War' because it seemed that for the first time in recorded human history, the battlefield extended to every corner of the globe. Written by former Cambridge history scholar Edward Paice, World War I The African Front: An Imperial War on the African Continent is an in-depth historical chronicle of the East African front of World War I. Though British troops quickly overwhelmed the threat of German naval bases in Africa, the land war would prove to be much more deadly to troops ... Read More
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