Allan Mallinson

The German Lion of Africa

He led all comers a merry dance throughout the first world war, and remained undefeated in Africa until the Armistice

  • African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914–1918

    Robert Gaudi

    Hurst, pp. 436

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