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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 353pp, 20 illustrations, end paper maps. Unmarked, tight, VG++ in VG dust-jacket. Classic account of von Lettow-Vorbeck's campaign in German East Africa (later Tanganyika), and his guerilla tactics which aimed to keep a hugely numerically superior British force tied down for the duration of the war. General von Lettow-Vorbeck surrendered his undefeated army at Abercorn in present-day Zambia on November 23, 12 days after the armistice was signed in Europe. VG+.
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Hardcover. Size: 9x6x1; Hardcover. First Edition. 1st printing. Very Good / Very Good dust jacket. Mild age tanning. Previous owner name inside. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire.
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Very good. Purnell Book Services, 1974, 353 pages, hardcover in a very good dust jacket, no owner's mark or underlining, light wear, small chips and tears on jacket.
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Like New. Macmillan; NY, 1974. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a Near Fine, a few light creases to front bottom/spine, light wear to edges, Dustwrapper. A nice, clean unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or aprx 6 x 9 inches], indexed, 353pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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Good in Good jacket. x, [2], 353, [3] pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Charles Miller (1918-after 1977) was an American author of history books on East Africa such as The Lunatic Express, An Entertainment in Imperialism (1971) and Battle for the Bundu, The First World War in East Africa (1974). Miller lived in New York City and also wrote feature articles and book reviews for The Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, The New Republic, and Saturday Review. Derived from a Kirkus review: Literally fighting through thorns in the East African interior, a quarter of a million Belgian and British forces failed to trap the small but elite Schutztruppe led by Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck. Thus the Kaiser's Army succeeded in diverting the greatest possible number of Allied troops from Europe into four years of dust and disease and endless pursuit through the prickly bundu of enemies composed mainly of natives from the local "black master race." Far better supplied, in control of the seas and coastal waters, von Lettow's opponent General Smuts remained an unimaginative strategist, and when the Allies finally got their classic fixed battle, 2, 700 men were lost--and von Lettow escaped to maraud elsewhere. This account is militarily sophisticated and also nostalgic for the old days of formal warfare.
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Book Octavo, hardcover, VG in VG white pictorial dj. Map endpapers showing Eastern Africa, Northern Theater, 1914 to 1916 and Eastern Africa operations 1914 to 1918. Clean and unmarked. B & W photo section (about 12 pp) in center of book. At the opening of World War one Germany, like Britain, had a far flung empire. Both had colonial territories in Africa and the European conflict quickly embraced these. The campaigns in Africa have been well overshadowed by the European slaughter, while and that in East Africa is termed by the author as "the last gentleman's war." The weaker German forces adapted better to fighting in vast spaces, in jungle and brushland, where supplies were few and far between. The outnumbered German forces, mainly colonial troops, held out till hostilities ended and their commander returned to his homeland as a hero. The author has constructed an excellent portrayel of this little known WWI theatre, fwith completely different conditions than in Europe. However, it absorbed a quarter million strong British army, manpower desperately needed on the Western Front. 353 pages including bibliography and index,
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AS NEW CONDITION. AS NEW DUST JACKET. //NO REMAINDER MARK//NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) //NOT PRICECLIPPED// NEW MYLAR COVER//
