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Tip and run: the untold story of the Great War in Africa
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African Research & Documentation
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October 1, 2007
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- Pinfold, John
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Tip and run: the untold story of the Great War in Africa, by Edward Paice. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2007. xxvi, 488 pp. ISBN 0-297-84709-0 . £25.
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