The First World War in Africa (Signed copy)

Signed by Hew Strachan to historian Anne Powell

Author

Hew Strachan

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

The First World War in Africa (Signed copy)

Printing Details

Reprint. Paperback. 21.5 × 14cm, 224pp.

Signed and dedicated by Hew Strachan to the half-title page, "For Anne, with best wishes, Hew Strachan". Anne is Anne Powell, historian, anthologist and author on the First and Second World Wars .

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.