1st Edition

The Chiwaya War Malawians In The First World War

By Melvin E Page Copyright 2000
    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    296 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on the great War's effect on Africa in general and Malawi in particular. It describes the outbreak of the war, the recruitment of soldiers, the drafting of porters, the conditions of military life, the conditions on the home front, and the war's end.

    Preface -- The Great Conflagration -- A War of Thangata -- The Machona Cohorts -- The Hungry War -- A Time of Fire -- Not A Complete Peace -- A Shame to People's Souls -- Fighting for the World -- On Sources and Method

    Biography

    Melvin E. Page