The First World War in Africa

To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. The First World War was not just fought in the trenches of the western front. It embraced all of Africa. Many of those who fought this white man's war were black. The dangers they confronted went beyond those of the battlefield. They fell prey to malaria and dysentery, and they were attacked by lions and crocodiles. But it was a vast and spectacular theatre of operations, in which great personalities - thrusting German officers like Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, or big-game hunters like Peter Pretorious - could impose themselves. Embracing the perspectives of all the nations who fought there, this is the first ever full account of the Great War in Africa.

ISBN 0199257280   Pages 236 ISBN13 9780199257287 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 323 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series title The First World War Publication date 14 Oct 2004   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress D575   Width (mm) 139 DEWEY 940.416   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

1		Introduction		1
2		Togoland		13
3		The Cameroons		19
4		South-West Africa		61
5		East Africa 1914-1915		93
6		East Africa 1916-1918		131

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