Originally letters home, these sketches by a British army surgeon describe the long campaign against German forces in East Africa. Dolbey writes on the army and navy, Lettow-Vorbeck and his troops, intelligence work, motor transport, the surgery of the war, his operating theatre at Handeni and the tropical diseases that plagued the troops.
A first-hand view of one of the war’s least-known fronts, with the colonial outlook of 1918. Download the free EPUB.