At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reach it, they had to haul two motorboats with the unlikely names of Mimi and Toutou through the wilds of the Congo. The twenty-eight were a strange bunch - onew as addicted to Worcester [i.e. Worcestershire] sauce, another was a former racing driver - but the strangest of all of them was their skirt-wearing, tattoo-covered commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson."--Jacket.
Dimensions:144 x 216
Author: Giles Foden
ISBN: 9780718145552
Format: Hardcover
Pages 336