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Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul Emil von

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870-1964) ranks as one of the most brilliant leaders of World War I. Lettow-Vorbeck was undefeated after four years of brilliant improvised fighting in East Africa.

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Lettow-Vorbeck's Soldiers by Walther Dobbertin
Call Number: 940.416 D632L
Publication Date: 2005
Relevance: How the East African Campaign of World War I Points to a Strategy for Defeating Usama Bin Laden in Afghanistan by Jonathan L Kelly
Call Number: M-U 43122 K299r
Publication Date: 2004
My Reminiscences of East Africa by Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck; Thomas P. Ofcansky (Introduction by)
Call Number: 940.423 L651m
Publication Date: 1987
Guerrilla by Edwin P. Hoyt
Call Number: 940.416 H868ga
Publication Date: 1981
East African Campaigns by Paul Emil Lettow-Vorbeck
Call Number: 940.416 L651e
Publication Date: 1957

The Unexpected Guerrilla by Nigel Jones.
Military History 27, no. 4:40-49 November 2010.
Foozling Tanga: The Failed British Amphibious Operation in German East Africa, 1914 by Michael Nahorniak and others.
Marine Corps Gazette 86, no. 10:48-54 October 2002.

The War of Legs: Transport and Infrastructure in the East African Campaign of World War I by Michael Pesek.
Transfers 5, no. 2:102-120 Summer 2015.
On the Winds of Africa: The Remarkable Flight of the L.59 by Roger Paule.
Sea Classics 46, no. 6:42-46 June 2013.
When Elephants Clash: A Critical Analysis of Major General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck in the East African Theater of the Great War by Thomas A. Crowson.
Fort Leavenworth, KS, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2003. 109 p.
A Case Study in Leadership Colonel Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck by John C. Stratis.
Calisle Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College, April 2002. 30 p.