Robert Gaudi is a freelance writer and historian. At one time or another, he has worked for the National Endowment for the Arts, tended bar, and managed a classic car restoration shop. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
'If all military histories were as thrilling and well written as
African Kaiser, I might give up reading fiction and literary
biography. ... Gaudi writes with the flair of a latter-day
Macaulay. He sets his scenes carefully and describes naval and
military action like a novelist. His sentences are models of
clarity and vivacity, sometimes further enlivened with wry
authorial comments.'
*Washington Post*
'African Kaiser is an entertaining and insightful read. Gaudi is
superb on what made von Lettow such a formidable exponent of
irregular warfare and on the reasons why his African soldiers would
have followed him to the ends of the earth.'
*Literary Review*
'Robert Gaudi combines a researcher's meticulous precision with a
novelist's consummate storytelling skill to piece together a
thousand shards of forgotten history into this astonishing and
irresistible confection.'
*Madison Smartt Bell*
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