Temple was one of five doctors tending the hundreds of casualties in the "Red House", a planter's house in Ras Kazone, commandeered as a field hospital. He and four colleagues were left behind with the wounded as the British fled, a broken force.
Temple wrote to his brother Tatham over two and a half years as a medical officer stationed in East Africa.

264 pages, 26 black and white photos, 7 colour photos (taken in 1999 by the author on a visit to Tanga where she successfully located the Red House in Ras Kazone), 3 maps.