Haile Selassie's War: The Ethiopian-Italian Campaign, 1935-1941 by Anthony Mockler

Haile Selassie's War: The Ethiopian-Italian Campaign, 1935-1941

Anthony Mockler

454 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative tense medium-paced
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"Half-man, half-snake" was how the Emperor Haile Selassie was described by one of his most ferocious rivals, the eunuch Balcha, who had commanded the artillery at the battle of Adowa where the first Italian invasion of Ethiopia was bloodily repuls...

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