Any recommendations for books on the War in SW Africa (Germans vs Herero/Nama)

[traveller]

I need to educate myself. Any recommendations?

[Siaba]

FOUNDRY book "Small wars and skirmishes".....at half price till midnight 
"Cette Afrique qui était allemande" by Bernard Lugan.....very hard to find and in french.

[traveller]

FOUNDRY book "Small wars and skirmishes".....at half price till midnight 
"Cette Afrique qui était allemande" by Bernard Lugan.....very hard to find and in french.

Thanks, but I got that one already. It was that one who sparked my interest to dig further...

[Le matou rouge]

About the Herero war, a scenario book is announced for Fall 2010 on the accurately named :

http://hererowars.com/

meow back,
Matt

[traveller]

About the Herero war, a scenario book is announced for Fall 2010 on the accurately named :

http://hererowars.com/

meow back,
Matt

That looks very interesting, thanks!

[Chuckaroobob]

Hi, a gamer named Roy Jones has been working on a book about that war, I think it should be ready for publication soon.  He always runs modified TSATF games at all the big HMGS East cons. 

[jp1885]

There's a reasonable amount on this conflict in The Scramble for Africa - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scramble-Africa-Thomas-Pakenham/dp/0349104492

[Plynkes]

I hesitate to recommend it, because I confess that I haven't got around to reading it yet, but you may find it interesting:



A novel rather than a history, but it is about the events you are interested in. If you read German you might want to get the original, rather than this English translation that I have.

[traveller]

Problem solved!

"The Revolt of the Hereros" by Jon M Bridgman is available in Google books - full version 184 pages

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k1bRcJ885fAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22revolt+of+the+hereros&source=bl&ots=xQnQZcElQ_&sig=FNGIiau_52U4QP5gluoPNmdilDc&hl=en&ei=1NFyTJzoCsvHswai7cG5Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Estorff]

Ask and ye shall eventually receive!  Roy Jones and Eric Alvarado's Herero War Rules and Scenario Book is now available from Recreational Conflict and On Military Matters in the US and from Caliver Books in the UK.  http://hererowars.com/new-update-on-the-herero/.  A second volume is envisioned down the road focused on the conflict with the Nama 1904-1908.   

Research for both efforts uses German colonial source material that is helpful for developing tabletop battle scenarios and understanding the forces involved.  Such documentation is seldom available in English translation and not surprisingly carries an imperial bias (or an anti-imperial, socialist bias, in the case of two latter histories written by East German scholars:  Horst Drechler's Let Us Die Fighting, reprinted in English in 1984, and Helmut Bley's Namibia Under German Rule, reprinted in English in 1996).  The British also compiled extensive evidence at the end of the First World War of German abuses in the colony demonstrating why they were unfit to rule and supporting the eventual mandate of the territory to the Union of South Africa by the League of Nations. There are oral traditions in modern Namibia that may offer a glimpse of the experience of these conflicts and their aftermaths from the perspectives of the indigenous people who were affected by them.  The new Namibian Genocide memorial that replaced the old Reiterdenkmal equestrian statue in Windhoek makes clear how the conflict is viewed by their descendants, and indeed by many others.

[juergen c. olk]

If you read german,the book to get ...long out of print is "Deutsche Reiter in Sudwest",by Dinckle-Campe. cost me $200.00 29 years ago. All individual stories ,tons of pictures and Carl Becker color prints. Also check out Chris Dales" German Colonial uniforms" website,he has lots of Info,plus recommendations. There are lots of bookin Berlins in german  "Berlin Zinnfiguren"is reprinting many of the old german colonial books. This is one of the pictures from the book.

[Estorff]

"Deutsche Reiter" can be read in its entirety online here:  https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24649883M/Deutsche_Reiter_in_S%C3%BCdwest. 

[juergen c. olk]

Well...that is cheaper than $200.00 ....thanx for the info.

[traveller]

Wow!

Many thanks!