Excerpt from British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918 Both the causes of military operations and the char acter of the terrain over which they take (place have to be presented clearly to the reader's min before they can be followed with ease. Often military events have been dealt with as a kind of poetic history, or in the dry technical manner which, save to those with ex rt knowledge, is repellent. There is no reason why t ey should not be narrated at once truthfully and lucidly. That attempt, at any rate, has here been made. Finally, the relations of these campaigns to each other and to the Great War as a whole have been touched upon as far as necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.