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The Battle of Tanga 1914. By Ross Anderson. Stroud, U.K.: Tempus Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0-7524-2349-5. Photographs. Annexes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 158. $24.99.
Part of an attractive Battles and Campaigns series, this study of an often ignored World War I amphibious landing in East Africa demonstrates the growing promise as well as continuing limitations of much military history. In this case, Dr. Ross Anderson, a former British army major, has managed a prodigious quantity of research looking at the battle from a variety of perspectives. He has located and utilized not merely more British material than many previous authors, but also evidence of the German operations in defense of their East African colony. Particularly impressive is his inclusion of many German and British photographic images associated with the operations.
Anderson has made an admirable effort to...