AFRICAN KAISER, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa
436pp., maps, paperback, Reprint, London (2017) 2023
General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964), was the commander of the Imperial German Army in the German East Africa campaign during the First World War.
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"Gaudi is superb on what made von Lettow such a formidable exponent of irregular warfare and on the reasons why his African soldiers would have followed him to the ends of the earth." Literary Review
Robert Gaudi is a freelance writer and historian.