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   Senest opdateret 27. april

   Imperial German Colonial and Overseas Troops 1885–1918

   Af Alejandro de Quesada, Chris Dale

   fra 2013-08-20 på forlaget Osprey Publishing

   ISBN: 17-8096-164-2

   pris: 95 kr – stand: ★★★★★★

   From the Boxer Rebellion to Tsingtao to German East Africa (Tanzania), and colonies across Africa and the central Pacific, the Kaiser's Second Reich created a worldwide empire, and then lost it. Following Prussia's victory over France in 1871 and German unification, the invigorated Second Reich sought international status alongside the older colonial powers - Britain, France, Spain and Russia. Actual overseas settlement was always sparse, counted in the low tens of thousands only, but by the mid-1880s German trading companies had established footholds in what became German East Africa (Tanzania), German South-West Africa (Namibia), and German West Africa (Cameroon, and Togo). To consolidate their position against native resistance, and to extend their frontiers, the German Imperial government soon took over these enclaves as colonies or 'protectorates'. In the 1890s it established a new branch of the armed forces, the Schutztruppe, composed largely of African askaris with German officers and NCOs, backed up by German artillery and machine guns. In parallel, the Imperial Navy raised marine battalions - eventually, three Seebataillone - to protect its overseas bases and to reinforce the colonies as needed. After German participation in putting down the Boxer Rebellion (1900) their primary responsibility was the German concession territory at Tsingtao in China, where Germany also raised a local East Asia Brigade; but the marines also served in the German Pacific possessions - Samoa, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Northern Solomon Islands, the Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines. Marine companies were also rotated through the African colonies at need. In addition to small-scale 'police' work, the brief German colonial period involved putting down rebellions in East Africa (1888-98) and Cameroon, and crushing - with great ruthlessness - the determined resistance of the Herero and Nama tribes in SW Africa (1890-1907), where there was a degree of German settlement. In World War I, Germany soon lost almost all her colonies to much stronger Allied forces. In China, Tsingtao was captured late in 1914 by a Japanese force with token British assistance. Resistance was minimal in the Pacific; and in 1915 the last defenders of German South-West Africa surrendered to South African forces. However, in East Africa the Schutztruppe, commanded by the very able Col (later MajGen) Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, fought a skillful mobile war against much larger British and Em

   
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   Senest opdateret 29. marts

   The Chaco War 1932–35

   Af Alejandro de Quesada

   fra 2011-11-22 på forlaget Osprey Publishing

   ISBN: 18-4908-416-5

   pris: 95 kr – stand: ★★★★★★

   Often over-shadowed by contemporary events in China and Japan, the Chaco War (1932-1935) was a massive territorial war between Bolivia and Paraguay, which cost almost 100,000 lives. It was sparked by Bolivia's attempts to capture a stretch of the Paraguay River to gain access to the Atlantic. An old fashioned territorial dispute, the contested area was the Gran Chaco Boreal, a 100,000-square mile region of swamp, jungle and pampas with isolated fortified towns. The wilderness terrain made operations difficult and costly as the war see-sawed between the two sides. Bolivian troops, under the command of a German general, Hans von Kundt, had early successes, but these stalled in the face of a massive mobilization programme by the Paraguans which saw their force increase in size ten-fold to 60,000 men. Both sides acquired 'modern' technology including tanks and planes in an attempt to seize the initiative but by 1935 both sides were exhausted and a ceasefire concluded. This book sheds light on a vicious territorial war that waged in the jungles and swamps of the Gran Chaco and is illustrated with rare photographs and especially commissioned artwork. 48 pages, Illustrated, soft cover, fine

   
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   Senest opdateret 23. april

   The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (2)

   Af Quesada, Alejandro de

   på forlaget Osprey Publishing, 2015

   Kategori: Øvrige

   pris: 95 kr

   Sideantal: 48 pages
   Indbinding: Illustrated soft cover, fine
   Republican Forces. Illustrated by Stephen Walsh. Men-at-Arms 498

   
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   Senest opdateret 23. april

   The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (1)

   Af Quesada, Alejandro de

   på forlaget Osprey Publishing, 2014

   Kategori: Øvrige

   pris: 95 kr

   Sideantal: 48 pages
   Indbinding: Illustrated, soft cover, fine
   Nationalist Forces. Illustrated by Stephen Walsh. Men-at-Arms 495

   
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   Senest opdateret 23. april

   Uniforms of the German Soldier

   Af Quesada, Alejandro M. de

   på forlaget Greenhill Books, London, 2006

   Kategori: Øvrige

   pris: 145 kr

   Sideantal: 192 pages
   Indbinding: Illustrated, Hard cover, fine with dust jacket
   An illustrated history from 1870 to the end of world war I.

   
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