When the emperor dies
By: Mason McCann Smith.
Publisher: Hamilton
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Description: Exciting novel relating the fascinating nineteenth-century Ethiopian emperor Tewedros (called Theodore by the British), his heroic efforts to curb the power of the Ethiopian warlords, and his epic battle against the Anglo-Indian army that came -- in typical British imperial fashion, with very little understanding of the Ethiopian culture -- to bring him down.
Notes: Originally published, New York , Random House, 1981.