Robert Gaudi
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English
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World War I Collection Spotlight - Biography and Memoir
World War I Collection Spotlight - Middle East, Africa, and Asia
World War I Collection Spotlight - Middle East, Africa, and Asia
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The incredible true account of World War I in Africa and General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the last undefeated German commander.
“Let me say straight out that if all military histories were as thrilling and well written as Robert Gaudi’s African Kaiser, I might give up reading fiction and literary biography… Gaudi writes with the flair of a latter-day Macaulay. He sets his scenes carefully
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English
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Explores the causes and consequences of the 18th-century conflict across North and South America, with roots in a contract to supply African slaves to the rich colonies of the Spanish Empire, that laid the groundwork for the later French and Indian War and the American Revolution a generation later.
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