Wall Street Journal: "...The spring of 1914 was...the last
season of tranquility before World War I. Though Britain
and Germany, and their allies, devoted the preponderance of
attention and armaments to the war in Europe, they spent
great sums of blood and money in a theater thousands of
miles south of Flanders Fields. The result, as Edward Paice
writes in 'World War I: The African Front,'
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was a 'maelstrom which radically altered
the lives of millions of Africans and would result in a
complete redrawing of the map of colonial Africa...' "
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