The Great War In Africa 1914 1918
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Author |
: Byron Farwell |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393305643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393305647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 by : Byron Farwell
The authors present the state of the art in the rapidly growing field of visualization as related to problems in urban and regional planning. The significance and timeliness of this volume consist in its reflection of several developments in literature and the challenges cities are facing. First, the unsustainability of many of our current paradigms of development has become evidently clear. We are entering an era in which communities across the globe are strengthening their connections to the global flows of capital, goods, ideas, technologies and values while facing at the same time serious dislocations in their traditional socioeconomic structures. While the impending scenarios of climate change impacts remind us about the integrated ecological system that we are part of, the current discussions about global recession in the media alert us and make us aware of the occasional perils of the globalized economic system. The globally dispersed, intricately integrated and hyper-complex socioeconomic-ecological system is difficult to analyze, comprehend and communicate without effective visualization tools. Given that planners are at the frontlines in the effort to prepare as well as build resilience in the impacted communities, appropriate visualization tools are indispensable for effective planning. Second, planners have largely been slow to incorporate the advances in visualization research emerging from other domains of inquiry.
Author |
: Robert Gaudi |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 450 |
Release |
: 2017-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780698411524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0698411528 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Kaiser by : Robert Gaudi
The incredible true account of World War I in Africa and General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the last undefeated German commander. “Let me say straight out that if all military histories were as thrilling and well written as Robert Gaudi’s African Kaiser, I might give up reading fiction and literary biography… Gaudi writes with the flair of a latter-day Macaulay. He sets his scenes carefully and describes naval and military action like a novelist.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post As World War I ravaged the European continent, a completely different theater of war was being contested in Africa. And from this very different kind of war, there emerged a very different kind of military leader.... At the beginning of the twentieth century, the continent of Africa was a hotbed of international trade, colonialism, and political gamesmanship. So when World War I broke out, the European powers were forced to contend with one another not just in the bloody trenches, but in the treacherous jungle. And it was in that unforgiving land that General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck would make history. With the now-legendary Schutztruppe (Defensive Force), von Lettow-Vorbeck and a small cadre of hardened German officers fought alongside their fanatically devoted native African allies as equals, creating the first truly integrated army of the modern age. African Kaiser is the fascinating story of a forgotten guerrilla campaign in a remote corner of Equatorial Africa in World War I; of a small army of ultraloyal African troops led by a smaller cadre of rugged German officers—of white men and black who fought side by side. But mostly it is the story of von Lettow-Vorbeck—the only undefeated German commmander in the field during World War I and the last to surrender his arms.
Author |
: Santanu Das |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2011-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521509848 |
ISBN-13 |
: 052150984X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race, Empire and First World War Writing by : Santanu Das
Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.
Author |
: EDWARD. PAICE |
Publisher |
: Apollo |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2021-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1800240317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781800240315 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tip and Run by : EDWARD. PAICE
The story of the First World War in Africa, which devastated an area five times the size of Germany and killed more than two million people. On 11 November 1918, the First World War came to an end in Europe. But, in Northern Rhodesia, the bloodshed persisted for another two weeks in what one campaign historian described as 'a war of extermination and attrition without parallel in modern times.' But for Major-General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the news of a German republic, and a Kaiser who had fled to Holland, seemed absurd. After approximately 650,000 carrier and civilian deaths in German Ruanda-Urundi and East Africa the hope of peace that armistice brought to Europe was not embraced with the same sense of relief. In Tip and Run, Paice tells the story of the elusive, relentless and fanatical Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in an engaging and detailed narrative that exposes the horrors of the European imperial fantasies so lethally visited upon Africa. 'Superb' Sunday Times. 'Masterful' Daily Mail. 'Gripping' Daily Telegraph.
Author |
: Melvin E Page |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 1987-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349188277 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349188271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa and the First World War by : Melvin E Page
Author |
: Edmund Howard Gorges |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 1930 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X001179710 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great War in West Africa by : Edmund Howard Gorges
"Herein will be found a short narrative of the naval and military operations in Togoland and the Cameroons, 1914-16."--Pref.
Author |
: G. J. Meyer |
Publisher |
: Bantam |
Total Pages |
: 818 |
Release |
: 2007-05-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780553382402 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0553382403 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis A World Undone by : G. J. Meyer
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world “Thundering, magnificent . . . [A World Undone] is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. . . . It will earn generations of admirers.”—The Washington Times On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. Praise for A World Undone “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . are lifelike and plausible. His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. . . . [A World Undone] has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured”—Los Angeles Times “An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.”—Steve Gillon, resident historian, The History Channel
Author |
: David Jordan |
Publisher |
: Amber Books Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2012-03-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781906626143 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1906626146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Balkans, Italy & Africa 1914–1918 by : David Jordan
With the aid of over 300 photographs, complemented by full-colour maps, The Balkans, Italy & Africa provides a detailed guide to the background and conduct of the war in the Balkan, Italian and African theatres from the assassination in Sarajevo to the surrender of the Central Powers.
Author |
: Ross Anderson |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2014-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780750958738 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0750958731 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Forgotten Front by : Ross Anderson
The First World War began in East Africa in August 1914 and did not end until 13 November 1918. In its scale and impact, it was the largest conflict yet to take place on African soil. Four empires and their subject peoples were engaged in a conflict that ranged from modern Kenya in the north to Mozambique in the south. The campaign combined heroic human endeavour and terrible suffering, set in some of the most difficult terrain in the world. The troops had to cope with extremes that ranged from arid deserts to tropical jungles and formidable mountains, and almost always on inadequate rations. Yet the East African campaign has languished in undeserved obscurity over the years, with many people only vaguely aware of its course of events. Indeed, Humphrey Bogart's famous film, The African Queen, inspired by an episode of the campaign, often provides its only lasting image. The Forgotten Front is the first full-scale history of this neglected campaign. Ross Anderson details the fighting and the strategic and political background to the war and the differing viewpoints of the principal protagonists.
Author |
: South Africa. General Staff |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 1924 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015057226469 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Union of South Africa and the Great War, 1914-1918 by : South Africa. General Staff