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Tip and run: the untold story of the Great War in Africa

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.

In popular memory it is the trench warfare of the Western Front which defines the First World War. Yet it was truly a world war, with actions in the Far East, the Pacific and in both West and East Africa, as the allied powers sought to gain control over Germany's colonial empire. A 'small war*, with a few 'local affairs' was all that was expected in August 1914, as Britain moved to eliminate the German naval bases in Africa and take over the German territories, yet in East Africa this developed into a long running and costly campaign, as ...

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