The Great War in Africa 1914-1918
New York, N.Y. W. W. Norton & Company, 1986. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 382, [2] pages. Includes 33 black and white illustrations, as well as 4 black and white maps of West Africa, The Cameroons, Southern Africa, and East Africa. Also includes Foreword, as well as chapters on the War in Togoland; The Cameroons: A Bad Beginning; The Capture of Douala; The C.E.F. Moves Inland; All but Mora; A Campaign Aborted by a Revolution; The Conquest of German South-West Africa; The Victorious South Africans; War Comes to German East Africa; War comes to British East Africa; The Saga of the Konigsberg; The Severn and the Mersey; Longido and Tanga; Tanga's Aftermath; 1915: The Lull Before the Storm; 1915: Alarums and Excursions; The True African Queens; The Battles for Lake Tanganyika; Smuts Takes Command; On the Road to Morogoro; The Capture of Tabora; The True Enemy; The Pursuit of Lettow-Vorbeck; New Leaders and a New Phase; War Comes to Portuguese East Africa; The End of the Schutztruppe. The book also contains an Epilogue, a Select Bibliography, and an index. Byron Edgar Farwell (June 20, 1921 – August 3, 1999) was an American military historian, biographer, and politician. He was the mayor of Hillsboro, Virginia, for three terms, and as an author completed 14 books and numerous articles. He graduated from Ohio State University and the University of Chicago (M.A., 1968). He served in World War II as a captain and later also saw combat in the Korean War. He separated from the military after seven years of active duty. He published articles in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper's Magazine, American Heritage, and Smithsonian Magazine as well as serving as a contributing editor to Military History, World War II, and Collier's Encyclopedia. He was a member of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature. Farwell was also a trustee of the Oatlands mansion. He completed 14 books, including The Man Who Presumed: A Biography of Henry M. Stanley (1957), Burton: A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1963), The Ghurkas (1984),[ The Great War in Africa, 1914–1918 (1986), Armies of the Raj: from the Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947 (1989),The Great Anglo-Boer War (1990), and Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918 (1999). Excerpt from a review found posted on-line: In sum, this book will be a good addition to those wishing to get a more complete picture of the Great War—but it is perhaps more useful as an introduction to combat in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a source for lessons in irregular or insurgent conflicts. The reader will see many parallels to other campaigns. For example, the constant British attempts to bring Lettow-Vorbeck’s forces to a set-piece battle, along with Lettow-Vorbeck’s rebuff of those efforts, reminds this reviewer of nothing so much as Bernard Fall’s description of the French trying to bring Giap to heel in Street Without Joy. In all, this is a solid and entertaining account that will provide ample food for thought for those interested in this little-remarked, but fascinating chapter of history. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: World War I, Africa, Togoland, Douala, German South-West Africa, Longido, Tanga, Lake Tanganyika, Jan Christian Smuts, Morogoro, Tabora, Lettow-Vorbeck, Charles Dobell, Max Loof, Richard Meinertzhaagen, Louis van Deventer
ISBN: 0393023699
[Book #81667]
Price: $55.00