Duel For Kilimanjaro (1966) By Leonard Mosley
A backwater of WWI, like the Middle East and Lawrence of Arabia, only in this case it was Africa and a German army facing 20 to 1 odds but one man made a difference.
The story of how German East African forces of some 14,000 men, led by General Paul-Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, held out against an army of the British Empire over ten time its size, and were still undefeated and fighting on when the 'Great War for Civilisation' came to a close in Europe in 1918.
A well researched account of the East African Campaign 1914-18
- Soft Cover
- 224 Pages
- In Fair to Good Condition