Online books: East Africa

[MaureenE]

I have recently added some online books to the FIBIS Fibiwiki page East Africa (First World War)

http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/East_Africa_(First_World_War)

Here is a copy of the list currently

Cheers

Maureen

• Military operations : East Africa: Volume I August 1914-September 1916 compiled by Charles Hordern 1941 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Part of the series "History of the Great War based on Official Documents". This was the only volume published.
• Marching on Tanga: (with General Smuts in East Africa) by Francis Brett Young 1917 Archive.org
• Sketches of The East Africa Campaign by Capt. Robert V. Dolbey, R.A.M.C. 1918 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a transcribed Project Gutenberg edition Archive.org
• The East African Force 1915-1919; an unofficial record of its creation and fighting career; together with some account of the civil and military administrative conditions in East Africa before and during that period by Brigadier General C P Fendall 1921 Archive.org
• With the Nigerians in German East Africa [Nigeria Regiment] by Captain W D Downes 1919 Archive.org
• War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force, Volume III by H A Jones 1931 Archive.org. Part of the series "History of the Great War based on Official Documents". Includes German East Africa.
• The War in Africa, 1914-1917, and in the Far East, 1914 by H C O’Neil 1918 Archive.org
• British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918 by Edmund Dane 1919 Archive.org
• The Navy Everywhere by Conrad Cato 1919. Archive.org Includes "The Navy in East Africa"
• "East Africa", page 253 The Post Office of India in the Great War edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org
• The story of a lion hunt; with some of the hunter's military adventures during the war by Arnold Weinholt, late Intelligence Corps [british East Africa] 1922 Archive.org
• Two years' captivity in German East Africa, being the personal experiences of Surgeon E. C. H., Royal Navy [Ernest Charles Holtom] c 1919 Archive.org
• In German Gaols; a narrative of two years' captivity in German East Africa by Ernest F Spanton, Priest of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. 1917 Archive.org
• Reports on the treatment by the Germans of British prisoners and natives in German East Africa … Presented to both Houses of Parliament September 1917 Archive.org
• British civilian prisoners in German East Africa; a report by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War 1918. Archive.org
• The Kenya Gazette Issues from 1899. (broken range). There is a small tool bar which enables you to scroll the volumes available. There appear to be no editions for 1916, however issues for the other WW1 years are available. There is a Search facility for all issues. Google Books The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.

[Sepoy]

Thank you Maureen

Very useful

Sepoy

[bushfighter]

Shahbash Maureen. H

[James A Pratt III]

I have a couple of questions why was Volume II of Military East Africa not written? Also I believe the Germans also wrote the first but not the second volume of their official history of the East African campaign?

[KONDOA]

The first volume was not completed until 1941 and of course there was a war on.

I cannot confirm but it is likelyt hat the documents and records required were moved into safe storage for the duration of the war.

Afterwards of course there was a new history to be written.

Roop

[MartH]

The first volume was not completed until 1941 and of course there was a war on.

I cannot confirm but it is likelyt hat the documents and records required were moved into safe storage for the duration of the war.

Afterwards of course there was a new history to be written.

Roop

Sorry more mundane reason. The writing of the Great War Official History carried on in new premises during the Second World War and the draft for Volume II was prepared and parts circulated for comments, both it and the comments survive at the NA. One of the authors Stacke died in 1935, and if IRC correctly something happened to Horden too, and he left the CID in 1941.

[ToadHall]

Many thanks.

The reading material keeps piling up!

Toad Hall