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The South-West Africa Campaign was the conquest and occupation of German South West Africa (Namibia) by forces from the Union of South Africa acting on behalf of the British Government at the beginning of the First World War.
*[https://archive.org/details/campaigngermansouthwestafrica/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915''] by Brigadier-General J J Collyer 1937 Archive.org. Regarded as the official South African history.
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothainfield00ritc ''With Botha in the fieldField''] by Moore Ritchie 1915 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/howbothasmutscon00rayn/page/n5/mode/2up ''How Botha and Smuts Conquered German South West: A Full Record of the Campaign from Official Information by Reuter's Special War Correspondents who accompanied the Forces sent by the Government of the Union of South Africa''] by W S Rayner and W W O’Shaughnessy 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothasarmy00robirich ''With Botha's Army''] by J P Kay Robinson 1916 Archive.org
*''General Botha, the Career and the Man'' by Harold Spender 1916 includes Chapters 14 and 15 1914-1915 [https://archive.org/details/generalbotha00spen/page/284/mode/2up pages 285-] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withbothasmutsin00whitrich ''With Botha and Smuts in Africa''] by W Wittall Late Lieutenant–Commander, RN, Armoured Car Division 1917 Archive.org. Also includes East Africa.
*[https://archive.org/details/generallouisboth1970mein/page/252 "German South-West Africa"] page 253, ''General Louis Botha: a Biography'' by Johannes Meintjes 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER297638 ''Hunting the Hun in British [i.e. German<nowiki>]</nowiki> South West Africa : a series of sketches on the humourous side of the G.S.W.A. campaign''] by W. H. Kirby [1915]. The author served with the Natal Light Horse, and was previously artist [cartoonist] for a newspaper. State Library of Victoria. [https://archive.org/details/hunting-hun-gswa/mode/1up Archive.org mirror version]
*[https://archive.org/details/ReportOnTheNativesOfSouthWestAfricaAndTheirTreatmentByGermanyBlueBook ''Report on the Natives of South West Africa and their Treatment by Germany''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament August 1918, published by HMSO. Archive.org
====Togoland and the Cameroons====
*Also see some books listed under East Africa above.
