East Africa & Von Lettow Vorbeck

[Tom Odom]

David,

I have that book as well and it is a good read. I enjoy Farwell's stuff immensely. My favorite is "Mr. Kipling's Army."

Of couse Wilbur Smith's novel "Shout at the Devil" is a very loose story about the commerce raider and then there is The African Queen for even more pure entertainment.

Tom

[Bowman]

Thanks Tom and Dave for information .


Seems like there was another novel some years back which was pretty good , " Curse of Majira" .

An interesting field commander . I will find Farwell's book next.

[Stratiotes]

One I ran across that is not real easy to find is called
Guerilla by Hoyt, ISBN: 0025552104.

Also, a very nice online bio is at FirstWorldWar online:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/lettowvorbeck.htm

Not only was he a brilliant military commander but also a decent human being who opposed Hitler's rise to power.

[davidbfpo]

The Daily Telegraph (London) today published a book review of 'Tip and Run: the untold tragedy of the Great War in Africa' by Edward Paice, pub. Weidenfield and Nicholson, £25 in the U.K.

I quote 'the story's hero is the one-eyed Schutztruppe chief Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck....one of the greatest guerilla leaders in history'.

Perhaps the book will be available via amzon & others across the water?

Davidbfpo

[Bowman]

I see that Amazon lists the book " Tip & Run " but not yet available .Went through my usual sources but only Amazon listed the book .
Looking forward to that book !!

[tequila]

Hew Strachan's The First World War: To Arms has an outstanding and quite lengthy chapter on WWI operations in Africa, with a lot of info about Lettow-Vorbeck's campaigns.

[wm]

Hew Strachan's The First World War: To Arms has an outstanding and quite lengthy chapter on WWI operations in Africa, with a lot of info about Lettow-Vorbeck's campaigns.

To Arms has been reprinted in pieces by Oxford. You can get a single volume called The First World War in Africa, published in paperback in 2004