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Book SynopsisIn The Last Great Safari: East Africa in World War I, military historian Corey W. Reigel explores a fascinating and misunderstood theater of operations in the history of the First World War. Unprepared for the Great War, colonial units combined modern industrial weapons and equipment with traditional African methods to produce a hybrid force. Throughout The Last Great Safari, Reigel challenges myth after myth. Were really one million Allied soldiers pulled up from Europe to toil in the tropical sun only to fall victim to local diseases? Did the Germans truly become masters of guerrilla warfare and humiliate the British Empire in what appeared a David versus Goliath conflict?Reigel brings together traditional military studies and African history to explore the myths, fables, and stereotypes that have long characterized examinations of this topic, from questions as to how German East Africa contributed to the fate of the war to claims respecting significant diversion of resources. Racism
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Rethinking the First World War and East Africa Chapter 3: Not What It Seems: Questioning the Military Accomplishments in East Africa Chapter 4: How Racism Influenced East Africa, 1914-1918 Chapter 5: A History of Errors Bibliography About the Author
