Three Years of War in East Africa.

Three Years of War in East Africa.

Author: Buchanan Angus

Year: 1919

Three Years of War in East Africa is an account of part of the East African Campaign during World War I, written by Captain Angus Buchanan, a British army officer who served with the 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, also known as the Frontiersmen, and who participated in the campaign from May 1915 through October 1917. Buchanan describes a march of more than 1,370 kilometers from British East Africa (present-day Kenya) into German East Africa (present-day Tanzania). The march took Buchanan and his unit through territories in the region of Mount Kilimanjaro, Lake Victoria, parts of the Belgian Congo, and the Lindi region of present-day southeastern Tanzania. The British campaign in East Africa was only partially successful, as a large force of British and colonial troops was never able to defeat and capture the smaller force of some 3,000 Germans and 11,000 askaris (native Africans), under the command of the German guerilla leader Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Buchanan describes the rigors of the campaign, which was conducted in conditions of extreme heat and drought, through inhospitable territories of high grass and jungle, with minimal rations of flour and water. Buchanan describes the