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Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika

Autor Giles Foden
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2005
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 28 were a strange bunch -- one was addicted to Worcester sauce, another was a former racing driver -- but the strangest of all of them was their skirt-wearing, tattoo-covered commander, Geoffrey Spicer-Simson. Whatever it took, even if it meant becoming the god of a local tribe, he was determined to cover himself in glory. But the Germans had a surprise in store for Spicer-Simson, in the shape of their secret 'supership' the Graf von Gotzen . . .



Unearthing new German and African records, the prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland retells this most unlikely of true-life tales with his customary narrative energy and style.


Fitzcarraldo meets Heart of Darkness, this is rich, vivid and flashmanesque in its appeal - military history at its most absorbing and entertaining
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141009841
ISBN-10: 0141009845
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 1 x 1 x 1 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967 and grew up in Africa. The author of three novels -- Zanzibar, Ladysmith and The Last King of Scotland -- he works on the books pages of the Guardian. From 1993 to 1997 he was an assistant editor of the TLS. In 1998 he won the Whitbread First Novel Award and a Somerset Maugham Prize.

Recenzii

Another delightful tale sieved from the flotsam of African military history from a writer who is fast creating a niche of his own
Foden has brought to life one of the strangest episodes of the first world war'... a real romp through the desert of darkness and extremely funny
Giles Foden writes with wit ... give it a read