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As the blurb says one german gunboat controls central africa and neither the british nor the belgians can do anything about it until an experienced african explorer comes up with a ludicrous plan

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This story is written in the third person from the medical officer’s pov and i thought it very wellwritten and edited with one or two minor digitisation errors

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The ending of this particular piece of british world war i history shows exactly the type of man spicer iswas and will be no surprise to all who read this book

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Interesting story but hard following the action and the setting

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The characterizations were rich and the description was interesting

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The author manages to capture the actions and personalities of the main participants very well albeit i seem to feel that his descriptions of the physical and health hazards that they had to endure have been somewhat watered down quite possibly due to the fact that one of the main sources of information for this book was the doctor and in all likelihood the author did not want to detract unduly from the role of the main participant the commander of the mission

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The practice of boat building to police lakes transpired in many earlier wars but the british who should have had expert military and ship building carpenters on lake tanganyika did not at the declaration of war in august 1914

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In 1915 a harebrained expedition to lake tanganyika carried two motor launches hundreds of miles overland through jungle desert and african wilderness to deny the germans control of the lake permitting an assault on german east africa