My Reminiscences of East Africa: The German East Africa Campaign in World War One - A General's Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780359738861)

General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck of the German East-Africa campaign shares his narrative of the war, and his effective use of guerilla warfare to keep a far larger Allied army in check. Unlike his counterparts in Europe, whose war degenerated to infamous trench warfare, Lettow-Vorbeck led a highly effective campaign that impressed commanders on both sides. His campaign took place over modern-day Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania, with parts of Britain's colonial holdings eventually also subject to skirmishing. The cunning use of terrain, weather, ambush, guns from the sunken ship Kigsberg, and local auxiliaries meant Lettow-Vorbeck's small force kept an Allied army roughly ten times as large occupied. Lettow-Vorbeck and other military figures in Germany had calculated how effective a guerilla campaign could be in Africa prior to the war commencing in 1914. Frustrated by his successes, the British sent reinforcements totaling over 70,000 men in 1916 - these too failed to gain a decisive victory.

Author: General Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck
ISBN-10: 0359738869
ISBN-13: 9780359738861
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 06/19/2019
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d