233: War in East Africa Pt. 1

Description

In this previously Patreon exclusive episode we find out about the war in East Africa.

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Transcript

Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Great War episode 233. Over the next five days you will see five episodes released for the podcast. These are not new episodes, and have appeared on the Patreon Feed when they were first released over the last few years. I wanted to quickly explain why I decided to release them here on the main podcast feed. When I first started the Patreon campaign for the podcast, I did not really know what kind of content would be appropriate to put behind the paywall. Along the way I released some episodes on topics that I initially thought were ideal for this purpose, like the events in Africa or China. But what I have come to realize is that by keeping that information off of the main podcast feed I was doing a disservice to those events, a disservice that is so often done in history books, where the actions and sacrifices of individuals in those areas are forgotten simply due to omission. Unlike in books, I have the ability to fix this problem, and therefore over the next five days you will see 3 episodes on the African theater, and an episode each for China and India during the war. I also want to point out that the episodes on Africa are a bit older, from 2016, so they may sound a bit different. I hope you enjoy them, and as always thank you for listening.