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The First World War in Africa

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The First World War in AfricaThe First World War in Africa by Hew Strachan
ISBN: 0199257280
on December 1st 2004
Pages: 234

Len's Summary: Another spin-off from Strachan's massive three volume work on WWI.

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The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign 1914-1918

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The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign 1914-1918The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign 1914-1918 by Ross Anderson
ISBN: 0750958367
Published by The History Press on November 1st 2014
Pages: 368

Len's Summary: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0750958367/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0750958367&linkCode=as2&tag=worlwaroneh0a-20&linkId=RUACECCR5SGBKIJY

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Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika

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Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake TanganyikaMimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
ISBN: 1400075262
Published by Vintage on March 14th 2006
Pages: 272

Len's Summary: The Royal Navy attacks Germany in Central Africa, the events that inspired C. S. Forester's The African Queen.

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No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War

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No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World WarNo Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War by Timothy J. Stapleton
ISBN: 9780889204980
Published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press on April 21st 2006
Genres: Africa, Military, Social Science
Pages: 188

Len's Summary: A rare look at African participation in The Great War.

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A Box of Sand: The Italo-Ottoman War 1911-1912

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A Box of Sand: The Italo-Ottoman War 1911-1912A Box of Sand: The Italo-Ottoman War 1911-1912 by Charles Stephenson
ISBN: 9780957689220
Published by Tattered Flag on December 19th 2014
Pages: 352

Len's Summary: Though forgotten today, this conflict was a curtain-raiser to the Great War as Italy expanded her African empire into the Ottoman provinces of today’s Libya and sparked a guerrilla war that lasted for two decades.

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Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa

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Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in AfricaTip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa by Edward Paice
ISBN: 0297847090
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson on August 1st 2007
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Africa
Pages: 560

Len's Summary: A retelling of the familiar story of the long and largely futile British campaign against German General Paul von Lettow Vorbeck, a masterful nineteenth century-style guerrilla fighter with a persistently romantic image. See also The First World War in Africa, Hew Strachan, Oxford, 2004 and The Forgotten War, Ross Anderson, Tempus, 2004.

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The Sanusi’s Little War: The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915-1917

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The Sanusi’s Little War: The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915-1917The Sanusi's Little War: The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915-1917 by Russell McGuirk
ISBN: 0954479270
on December 1st 2007
Genres: History, Africa, North, Military, World War I
Pages: 332

Len's Summary: Religious warriors of Libya who fought the occupying Italians for two decades following the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12. With Turkish backing the warriors led by Ahamad al-Sharif, the charismatic Grand Sanusi, raided into Egypt and French Sudan.

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Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914-1918

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Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914-1918Springboks on the Somme by Bill Nasson
ISBN: 014302535X
Published by Penguin Global on February 13th 2008
Genres: History, Africa, South, General
Pages: 300

Len's Summary: A study of South African participation in far-flung campaigns from German South West Africa, to Egypt and the Western Front.

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The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism

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The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of NazismThe Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism by Casper W. Erichsen, David Olusoga
ISBN: 9780571231423
Published by Faber & Faber on August 1st 2011
Genres: History, Africa, South, General, Europe, Germany, Military, Other, Political Science, Political Process
Pages: 394

Len's Summary: An indictment of German colonialism in South West Africa (present-day Namibia); the 1905 massacres of Herero and Nama tribesmen.

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From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914

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From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914 by Spencer Jones
ISBN: 9780806144153
Published by University of Oklahoma Press on September 1st 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, Strategy, Modern, 19th Century, Africa, South, Republic of South Africa
Pages: 312

Len's Summary: Key tactical lessons learned on the veldt and applied by the British Army during the interwar years, 1902-1913.

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