In this episode of pplpod, we dive into one of the most overlooked and devastating chapters of military history: the East African campaign of World War I. Stretching from August 1914 well past the Armistice into November 1918, this brutal conflict transformed the territories of modern-day Tanzania, Rwanda, Mozambique, and Kenya into a massive battleground for rival imperial powers.

We explore the elusive guerrilla warfare tactics of German commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Schutztruppe. Discover how his strategy to divert hundreds of thousands of British, South African, Indian, Belgian, and Portuguese Allied troops away from the Western Front played out across the continent. We unpack key moments of this WWI African theatre, including the amphibious disaster at the Battle o ...