Open AccessMILITARY OPERATIONSEAST AFRICA: AUGUST 1914 TO SEPTEMBER 1916; VOLUME ONE
Author(s) -
Noëlle Cowling
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/24-2-276
Subject(s) - section (typography) , political science , economic history , spanish civil war , military history , ancient history , first world war , history , law , advertising , business
History of the Great War - Based on 'Official documents - By the Directors of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence.
Of all the "sideshows" of World War One, the campaign in East Africa is probably the least well known. For South Africa it was nevertheless an important theatre of war due to the sizeable portion of the Union's war effort which was carried out in the region.