Description: TAKING TANGANYIKA Experiences of an Intelligence Officer, 1914 - 1918 CHRISTOPHER J. THORNHILL Author of "From Hobo to Cannibal King" With a Foreword by FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG STANLEY PAUL: LONDON 1937 First edition. The Great War in East Africa is a ‘sideshow’ campaign that has acquired legendary status. The German military Governor in today’s Tanzania, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, was a guerilla 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 guerilla 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. In his foreword to the book, Francis Brett Young, author of a classic account of the campaign, says of this book: ‘The soldier who wants to realize what bush-fighting is like could not find a better text-book’. 22 x 15 cm. 288 pp + frontispiece & 14 b/w photo plates + publisher's adverts. Very good – condition. Some foxing mainly to the page edges but the occasional page has a considerable amount (see photos). A few minor annotations in pencil but otherwise clean and tidy, binding sound, all plates present. Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing. The complete eBay Selling Solution.
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Author: C Thornhill
Binding: Hardback
Language: English
Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military
Original/Facsimile: Original
Publisher: Stanley Paul
Region: Africa
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Year Printed: 1937
