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The Great War in Africa: 1914-1918, by Byron Farwell (Norton, 382 pp., $18.95)
Byron Farwell, author of a fine biography of the adventurer Sir Richard Burton, has not done original research on this subject. But he has produced a readable popular history of the British-German battles in four remote theaters of war: Togoland and the Cameroons in West Africa, German South-West Africa, and German East Africa (now Tanzania).
About the Author
Mr. Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of John Huston: Courage and Art.
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The Great War in Africa: 1914-1918, by Byron Farwell (Norton, 382 pp., $18.95)
Byron Farwell, author of a fine biography of the adventurer Sir Richard Burton, has not done original research on this subject. But he has produced a readable popular history of the British-German battles in four remote theaters of war: Togoland and the Cameroons in West Africa, German South-West Africa, and German East Africa (now Tanzania).
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About the Author
Mr. Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of John Huston: Courage and Art.
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