9780394542225 - Haile Salassie's War: the Ethiopian-italian Campaign, 1935-1940 by Mockler, Anthony (14 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. 454 page hardcover with illustrations (photos and maps), Chronology, Glossary, Biibliography and Notes and Index. Dust jacket is complete and clean.Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First American Edition. Minimal wear. Old sales sticker of front cover. Y12.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition stated. A fine copy in a fine DJ, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #610.

Condition: VG+/VG. 1st US. 8vo. 454pp. 1/4" tears, light wear to DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first american edition. 6 x 9 in. Cloth and paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, one corner crushed, minor wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clean, rubbed, edges worn. Hist. Stax.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "First American Edition" stated. Fine hardback in fine dust jacket ($24.95). Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket: primarily to spine tips of dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st American Edition. SIGNED by author on a bookplate decal on front end page. $24.95 price on DJ flap. Also includes a laid-in handwritten initialed note from author. Also includes laid-in the original 1984 review from New York Times. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jeremy Grayson (Author photograph) (illustrator). xxxviii, 454 pages. Note on the Geographic Provinces, and History of Ethiopia. Note on Ethiopian Spelling, Pronunciation, and Names. Glossary. Illustrations. List of Maps. Family Tree of Tigre. Family Tree of Shoa. Family Tree of Jojjam. Chronology. Biographical Index. Sources and Chapter Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. The dust jacket has some wear, tears, soiling and chips. Front flap has a small crease. In 1936, the Italian Fascist invaders drove Emperor Haile Selassie from his throne in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Five years later to the day, he returned to the city after the Italians had been driven out by African and British forces. This book recounts the military history of those years, describing the initial invasion and the events that led to the reversal. Anthony Mocker's immensely readable epic history is divided into three parts. First the scene is set in Ethiopia, still feudal, and in Italy, newly fascist. The second part describes in compelling detail the Italian invasion and the battles in the north: it ends with the invaders in undisputed control of their new Roman Empire and with Haile Selassie living in apparently hopeless exile near Bath. The final section recounts how, following Italy's entry into World War II, British Somaliland was invaded and conquered and fears of a British debacle spread all over East Africa. But then the tide of battle turned. As Mussolini's dreams crumbled into dust and his armies into defeat, the ex-Emperor, supported by the bold troops of Orde Wingate's Gideon Force, achieved victory. The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion and in Italy as the Ethiopian War. It is seen as an example of the expansionist policy that characterized the Axis powers and the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations before the outbreak of World War II. On 3 October 1935, two hundred thousand soldiers of the Italian Army commanded by Marshal Emilio De Bono attacked from Eritrea (then an Italian colonial possession) without prior declaration of war. At the same time a minor force under General Rodolfo Graziani attacked from Italian Somalia. On 6 October, Adwa was conquered, a symbolic place for the Italian army because of the defeat at the Battle of Adwa by the Ethiopian army during the First Italo-Ethiopian War. On 15 October, Italian troops seized Aksum, and an obelisk adorning the city was torn from its site and sent to Rome to be placed symbolically in front of the building of the Ministry of Colonies. Ethiopian forces attacked the newly arrived invading army and launched a counterattack in December 1935, but their poorly armed forces could not resist for long against the modern weapons of the Italians. Even the communications service of the Ethiopian forces depended on foot messengers, as they did not have radio. It was enough for the Italians to impose a narrow fence on Ethiopian detachments to leave them unaware of the movements of their own army. The Ethiopian counteroffensive managed to stop the Italian advance for a few weeks, but the superiority of the Italians' weapons (particularly heavy artillery and airstrikes with bombs and chemical weapons) prevented the Ethiopians from taking advantage of their initial successes. The Italians resumed the offensive in early March. On 29 March 1936, Graziani bombed the city of Harar and two days later the Italians won a decisive victory in the Battle of Maychew, which nullified any possible organized resistance of the Ethiopians. Emperor Haile Selassie was forced to escape into exile on 2 May, and Badoglio's forces arrived in the capital Addis Ababa on 5 May. Italy announced the annexation of the territory of Ethiopia on 7 May and Italian King Victor Emmanuel III was proclaimed emperor on 9 May. The provinces of Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Abyssinia (Ethiopia) were united to form the Italian province of East Africa. Fighting between Italian and Ethiopian troops persisted until 19 February 1937. On the same day, an attempted assassination of Graziani led to the reprisal Yekatit 12 massacre in Addis Ababa, in which between 1,400 and 30,000 civilians were killed. Italian forces continued to suppress rebel activity by the Arbegnoch until 1939. Italian troops used mustard gas in aerial bombardments (in violation of the Geneva Protocol and Geneva Conventions) against combatants and civilians in an attempt to discourage the Ethiopian people from supporting the resistance. Deliberate Italian attacks against ambulances and hospitals of the Red Cross were reported. By all estimates, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian civilians died as a result of the Italian invasion Crimes by Ethiopian troops included the use of dumdum bullets (in violation of the Hague Conventions), the killing of civilian workmen (including during the Gondrand massacre) and the mutilation of captured Eritrean Ascari and Italians, beginning in the first weeks of war. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. Stated 1st American Edition. Covers clean and bright. Head of spine gently bumped. Back top corner very gently bumped. Minimal soiling to edges. No previous owner marks. Glue residue on side edges of front and rear endpapers. Text, photographs and maps clean and bright. Minor fading to Dust Jacket spine. Both ends of DJ spine very gently rubbed. DJ corners gently rubbed. Bottom corner of DJ front flap dog-eared. DJ now protected in mylar. Ships same or next business day. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 454 pages.