Book review: World War I in Africa: the forgotten conflictamong the European powers

Murphy, Mahon (2013) Book review: World War I in Africa: the forgotten conflictamong the European powers. LSE Review of Books (05 Apr 2013). Website.

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World War I in Africa looks afresh at the strategies of the German and Allied campaigns, and at the great rivalry between General Jan Christian Smuts, who took on the German forces in East Africa, and General Lettow-Vorbeck, celebrated as the only German general to occupy British territory and whose troops finished the war undefeated. Although this book is presented as a multi-national study of the war in Africa, its key strength lies in the author’s intimate knowledge of internal politics in South Africa, writes Mahon Murphy.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2013 LSE Review of Books
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D501 World War I
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2013 15:25
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 18:32
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/52974

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