Anybody read this? It seems quite new. My book club sent it to me in one of those annoying "Editor's Choice" things where if you forget to reject it they send you some book you don't want.
This one is right up my street though, so I've decided to keep it, even though I already have a bunch of books on the subject. As far as overviews go Byron Farwell's "The Great War in Africa" is a great read, but doesn't go into much detail. Ross Anderson's "The Forgotten Front" is so dreary and boring that I never finished it, even though it goes into more of the detail I wanted. And he constantly refers to place names that are not on the maps he provides.
I hate that! I HATE IT! It makes it impossible to follow what's going on!
So hopefully this one will fall somewhere between the two. I'm already impressed by the fact that it has loads of photos that I have never seen before (and continues to show the majority of KAR troops with small fezzes and no neck flaps: Figure manufacturers take note! Why always with the neck flaps?).
My favourite photo shows two chaps of the East African Mounted Rifles painting black stripes on to a pony, to disguise it as a zebra. You couldn't make this stuff up!
I'll let you know if its any good when I've read it. Dunno when that will be, though, at the minute I'm attacking the Hejaz with Lawrence in a Rolls Royce armoured car, and sailing the South Seas with Aubrey and Maturin
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April 23, 2024, 11:31:15 AM
