With a few thousand German officers and African Askari, Lettow-Vorbeck tied down far larger British and Allied forces in German East Africa for the whole of the war. He describes the defeat of the British landing at Tanga in 1914, the use of guns salvaged from the cruiser Königsberg, and years of guerrilla marches across the colony and into Mozambique.
A remarkable soldier’s memoir, written with the colonial outlook of a German officer of 1920. Download the free EPUB.