The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: August 1989
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780393305647
First sentence: Great Britain declared was on Germany on 5 August 1914, but it was not until seven o'clock on the morning of 22 August that Corporal Ernest Thomas of 'C' Squadron, 4th Royal Irish Dragon Guards, riding with a mounted patrol near the village of Casteau, Belgium, fired the British Expeditionary Force's first shot of the war.