The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign 1914-1918 (Revealing History)
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Book Description
The first history of the East African campaign of the first World War—a campaign that inspired the Humphrey Bogart film, The African Queen.
From the Publisher
The First World War began in East Africa in July 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, leaving hunger and devastation in its trail. Yet the East African campaign has languished in undeserved obscurity over the years, with many people only vaguely aware of its course of events. Africans bore the brunt of the fighting and few escaped the impact of the war.
Part of the Battles & Campaigns series, edited by Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford.
Ross Anderson spent 30 years in the British and Canadian Armies, 16 years as a Major. His other books include The Battle of Tanga 1914, also published by Tempus.
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