The Ethiopian revolution
Subtitle: war in the Horn of Africa
By: Gebru Tareke ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan.
Series: Yale library of military history
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780300141634
Subjects: Eritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-; Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1977-1979; Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1979-; Ethiopia -- History -- 1974-; Eritrea -- History -- Revolution, 1962-1993
Description: Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the 20th century. Here, Tareke brings to life the leading personalities in the domestic political struggles, strategies of the warring parties international actors, and key battles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of abbreviations; title: The specter of revolution and war; title: Revolutionary brothers at war; title: I. Roots and outcomes of revolution: a review; title: Pt. 2. Comrades against comrades; title: The twin revolutions: the ABCs of revolutionary war; title: II. The victorious nationalists: insurgent Eritrea; title: III. The victorious ethnonationalists: insurgent Tigray; title: IV. The vanquished revolutionary army: birth and evolution; title: V. The vanquished revolutionary army: defeat and demise; title: Pt. 3. Battlefield Ethiopia; title: From Raza to Red Star and beyond; title: VI. Ogaden: "socialist" neighbors at war; title: VII. Nakfa: "even the mountains fought"; title: VIII. Af Abet: Ethiopia's Dienbienphu?; title: IX. Shire: "unexpected grand failure"; title: X. Massawa: the denouement; title: XI. Conclusions; title: 1998: postscript.