Book of the month for adults – November 2007
'Mimi and Toutou go forth'
'Mimi and Toutou go forth: the bizarre battle of Lake Tanganyika' by Giles Foden
At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Africa. In June 1915, a force of 28 men was sent from Britain 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 men were a strange bunch led by their skirt-wearing, tattoo-covered commander, Geoffrey Spicer-Simson.
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 energy and style – military history at its most entertaining.
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