Author Description

It was one of the bloodiest and most wretched periods in history, and it shaped the face of modern Africa. Now these great battles receive for the first time a much-deserved detailed depiction of day-to-day combat action. Reading like an adventure novel, all the excitement and courage and horror of hand-to-hand fighting and strategic genius come through on every page. Nine of the most influential actions receive the careful and accurate attention of an internationally acclaimed military historian who knows his field and also what interests other historians as well as modelers, wargamers, re-enactors, and visitors to Africa. 224 pages, 43 b/w illus., 6 x 9 1/4.