The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 Monday, August 3 2009.

• The African front comprised a series of conflicts, schemes, maneuvers, heroics, disasters, inhospitable climate and geography, and insects--as the Allies sought to conquer four German colonies.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918 Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Great Britain declared was on Germany on 5 August 1914, but it was not until seven o'clock on the morning of 22 August that Corporal Ernest Thomas of 'C' Squadron, 4th Royal Irish Dragon Guards, riding with a mounted patrol near the village of Casteau, Belgium, fired the British Expeditionary Force's first shot of the war.