I was just given a copy of "The Great War In Africa", by Byron Farwell. Have not started it yet. But Ive read some in the past to know that Von Lettow-Vorbeck was one of the military geniuses of the 20th Century.
Another good book is "The Adventures of Mimi and Tou Tou! The story about the two patrol boats the Brits hauled from the Thames estuary to Lake Tanganika. Awesome read. Was the basis for the story "The African Queen". The RN officer in charg Spicer-Simpson was quite the eccentric.
There was another RN officer who drank Wochestershire sauce as an aperitif! By the case!
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