MUSSOLINI, MUSTARD GAS & THE FASCIST WAY OF WAR: Ethiopia, 1935-1936

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Examines Italy's war on Ethiopia in military and political terms, and how it was an operation entirely of choice. While it was launched with the intent of turning Ethiopia into an Italian possession, it was in fact a war of aggression against an independent, sovereign, state with membership of the League of Nations -- a state that had, according to one of its 19th-century rulers, been 'for 14 centuries a Christian island in a sea of pagans.' Looks at how the Italian victory resulted from using aircraft, mustard gas, and motorization/mechanization. Contains 25 mono illustrations.