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Author : John Johnston Collyer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book The South Africans with General Smuts in German East Africa, 1916 written by John Johnston Collyer and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Johnston COLLYER
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book The South Africans. With General Smuts in German East Africa, 1916, Etc written by John Johnston COLLYER and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Brock Katz
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636240186
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Jan Smuts and his First World War in Africa, 1914–1917 written by David Brock Katz and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new assessment of Jan Smuts’s military leadership through examination of his World War I campaigning, demonstrating that he was a gifted general, conversant with the craft of maneuver warfare, and a command style steeped in the experiences of his time as a Boer general. World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realize his ambition of a Greater South Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa – the demise of which would end the Kaiser’s grandiose schemes for Mittelafrika. As part of his strategy to shift South Africa’s borders inexorably northward, Smuts even cast an eye toward Portuguese and Belgian African possessions. Smuts, his abilities as a general much denigrated by both his contemporary and then later modern historians, was no armchair soldier. This cabinet minister and statesman donned a uniform and led his men into battle. He learned his soldiery craft under General Koos De la Rey's tutelage, and another soldier-statesman, General Louis Botha during the South African War 1899–1902. He emerged from that war, immersed in the Boer maneuver doctrine he devastatingly waged in the guerrilla phase of that conflict. His daring and epic invasion of the Cape at the head of his commando remains legendary. The first phase of the German South West African campaign and the Afrikaner Rebellion in 1914 placed his abilities as a sound strategic thinker and a bold operational planner on display. Champing at the bit, he finally had the opportunity to command the Southern Forces in the second phase of the German South West African campaign. Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and Imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Shutztruppe. Using his penchant for Boer maneuver warfare together with mounted infantry led and manned by Boer Republican veterans, he proceeded to free the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck’s grip. Often leading from the front, his operational concepts were an enigma to the British under his command, remaining so to modern-day historians. Although unable to bring the elusive and wily Lettow-Vorbeck to a final decisive battle, Smuts conquered most of the territory by the end of his tenure in February 1917. General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa makes use of multiple archival sources and the official accounts of all the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during World War I.
Author : David Brock Katz
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776192311
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Jan Smuts And his First World War in Africa (1914-19-17) written by David Brock Katz and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An engaging, well-written and meticulously researched military biography ...' – Tim Stapleton, Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realise his ambition of a Greater South Africa when the First World War ushered in a final scramble for Africa. He set his sights firmly northward upon the German colonies of South West Africa and East Africa. Smuts's abilities as a general have been much denigrated by his contemporaries and later historians, but he was no armchair soldier. He first learned his soldier's craft under General Koos de la Rey and General Louis Botha during the South African War (1899−1902). He emerged from that conflict immersed in Boer manoeuvre doctrine. After forming the Union Defence Force in 1912, Smuts played an integral part in the German South West African campaign in 1915. Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Schutztruppen. His penchant for manoeuvre warfare and mounted infantry freed most of the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck's grip. General Jan Smuts and his First World War in Africa provides a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts's generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire during this era.
Author : James Ambrose Brown
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Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book They Fought for King and Kaiser written by James Ambrose Brown and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Gertrude Millin
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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Smuts written by Sarah Gertrude Millin and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Johnston Collyer
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Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book The South Africans with General Smuts in German East Africa, 1916 written by John Johnston Collyer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1939 as a South African official history for their forces in World War I, this book covers the period from February 1916 to January 1917. There are chapters on the situation in German East Africa prior to the arrival of General Smuts, the occupation of the Kilimanjaro area, operations of the 1st Division in a number of battles and the operations of General van Deventer.
Author : David Brock Katz
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 9781636240176
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Jan Smuts and His Great War in Africa 1914-1917 written by David Brock Katz and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new assessment of Jan Smuts's military leadership through examination of his World War I campaigning, demonstrating that he was a gifted general, conversant with the craft of manoeuvre warfare, and a command style steeped in the experiences of his time as a Boer general.
Author : Reginald Hugh Kiernan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Smuts written by Reginald Hugh Kiernan and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om General Smuts, hans karriere som officer og i politik samt hans filosofi. General Smuts deltog i Boerkrigen i Sydafrika, 1. Verdenskrig samt 2. Verdenskrig.
Author : Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book My Reminiscences of East Africa written by Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964) was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign. For four years, with a force that never exceeded about 14,000 (3,000 Germans and 11,000 Africans), he held in check a much larger force of 300,000 British, Belgian, and Portuguese troops. Essentially undefeated in the field, von Lettow-Vorbeck was the only German commander to successfully invade imperial British soil during World War I. His exploits in the campaign have come down "as the greatest single guerrilla operation in history, and the most successful." [Source: Wikipedia]
