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Title Prevail : the inspiring story of ethiopia's victory over Mussolini's invasion, 1935-1941 / Jeff Pearce ; foreword by Richard Pankhurst
Imprint New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2017]
©2017

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Rosengård:Vuxen Facklitteratur (900-999)  963 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition [Paperback edition]
Descript xvii, 616 pages illustrations, maps 23 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean for a white-knuckle showdown with Italian ships, riots broke out in major cities all over the United States. Italian planes dropped poison gas on Ethiopian troops, bombed Red Cross hospitals, and committed atrocities that were never deemed worthy of a war crimes tribunal. But unlike the many other depressing tales of Africa that crowd book shelves, this is a gripping thriller, a rousing tale of real-life heroism in which the Ethiopians come back from near destruction and win . Tunnelling through archive records, tracking down survivors still alive today, and uncovering never-before-seen photos, Jeff Pearce recreates a remarkable era and reveals astonishing new findings. He shows how the British Foreign Office abandoned the Ethiopians to their fate, while Franklin Roosevelt had an ambitious peace plan that could have changed the course of world history--had Chamberlain not blocked him with his policy on Ethiopia. And Pearce shows how modern propaganda techniques, the post-war African world, and modern peace movements all were influenced by this crucial conflict--a war in Africa that truly changed the world
Subject 1900-1999
Abessinienkriget 1935-1936
Krig
Internationella relationer
Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
Diplomatic relations.
Ethiopia -- History -- 20th century
Ethiopia -- Foreign relations -- Italy
Ethiopia.
Italy.
Etiopien
Italien
History.
Alt Auth Pankhurst, Richard
ISBN/ISSN 1510718656
9781510718654 häftad
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