Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the First World War in Africa

Controversial and groundbreaking account of the infamous East African campaign during the First World War
'Superb' Sunday Times
"Masterful' Daily Mail
'Gripping' Daily Telegraph


The Great War's East Africa campaign was, and remains, of huge importance.

A 'small war', consisting of a few 'local affairs', was all that was expected in August 1914 as Britain moved to eliminate the threat to the high seas of German naval bases in Africa. But two weeks after the Armistice was signed in Europe British...