Newly-available internet texts on WWI in Africa

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Newly-available internet texts on WWI in Africa

Post by David Thompson » 26 Sep 2008 19:49

Calvert, Albert Frederick, South-west Africa during the German occupation, 1884-1914 (1915)
http://www.archive.org/details/southwes ... 00calvuoft
Calvert, Albert Frederick, German East Africa (1917)
http://www.archive.org/details/germanea ... 00calvrich
Dane, Edmund, British campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918 (1919)
http://www.archive.org/details/britishcampaigns00dane
Difford, Ivor Denis, The story of the 1st Battalion Cape Corps, 1915-1919 (1920)
http://www.archive.org/details/storyof1 ... 00diffuoft
Frenssen, Gustav, Peter Moor's journey to Southwest Africa; a narrative of the German campaign (1914)
http://www.archive.org/details/petermoo ... 00frenrich
Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul Emil von, Meine Erinnerungen aus Ostafrika (1920)
http://www.archive.org/details/meineeri ... 00lettuoft
Millais, John Guille, Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., Capt. 25th Royal Fusiliers (1919)
http://www.archive.org/details/lifeoffr ... 00milliala
Sheppard, S. H. (Seymour Hulbert), Some notes on tactics in the East African campaign (1919)
http://www.archive.org/details/somenote ... 00sheprich
Walker, H. F. B. (Henry Francis Bell), A doctor's diary in Damaraland (1917)
http://www.archive.org/details/doctorsd ... 00walkuoft
Whittall, W., With Botha and Smuts in Africa (1917)
http://www.archive.org/details/withboth ... 00whitrich

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Re: Newly-available internet texts on WWI in Africa

Post by Chris Dale » 01 Oct 2008 23:18

Thanks very much for those David!
I've just read the Peter Moor first hand account of the Herero War. Excellent reading...

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Re: Newly-available internet texts on WWI in Africa

Post by David Thompson » 20 Oct 2008 18:50

Great Britain. Foreign Office, Correspondence relative to the alleged ill-treatment of German subjects captured in the Cameroons (1915)
http://www.archive.org/details/correspondencere00grea

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