THE SOUTH AFRICANS WITH GENERAL SMUTS IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA, 1916

Publisher's red cloth binding with black titles to front panel and spine.

xxi + 299pp. Frontispiece map of Southern Africa + 21 fold-out maps of the campaign at rear (all present). Foreword by General Jan Smuts - one of approximately 60-70 he wrote in his lifetime.

Binding sound. Contents clean.

'This book is a very interesting and instructive account of the East African Campaign during the period covered by my command. It is a careful critical study by the very able and experienced officer who was my chief of the General Staff and who was therefore in a special position to know or to learn the circumstances and difficulties of the task which faced us.

The book is written particularly for students who are interested in warfare under the unusual tropical conditions of East Africa, but it is in no sense a merely technical military account of the campaign. It is a full story of a great human performance, and as such is certain to prove of deep interest to the general public as well as to students of war. I have read it with much interest, not only because it revived memories of an unusual and arduous task, but also because it reproduces so well the African atmosphere and setting of an extraordinary undertaking. The East African Campaign is and may - one hopes - long remain the outstanding example of tropical African warfare, and as such is deserving of the attention of all who take an interest in this continent and its future.' - from the Foreword by General Jan Smuts