Days of emperor and clown
Subtitle: the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
By: by James Dugan and Laurence Lafore.
Contributors: Lafore, Laurence Davis, joint author.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Crossroads of world history series
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936
First sentence: Prologue.
Avanti!
The rainy season in the Ethiopian highlands ends in September.  On September 29, 1935, Benito Mussolini, the dictator of Italy, sent a telegram to the commander of the Italian forces in the East African colony of Eritrea:  "Avanti!  I order you to begin the advance."
Description: Historical account of the attempt by pre-WWII fascist Italy to establish a colonial empire using the independent nation of Ethiopia.  National Socialist (Nazi) fascist Italy, under egotistical Mussolini, actually attacked and overran Ethiopia in the fall of 1935, cementing the relationship of the two National Socialist regimes, Germany and Italy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: pagenum: IX
class: part
title: FOREWORD; pagenum: XV
title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; pagenum: 1
title: PROLOGUE:  Avanti!; pagenum: 5
label: 1
title: The Sons of Solomon; pagenum: 33
label: 2
title: The Lion of Judah; pagenum: 58
label: 3
title: The Son of Romulus; pagenum: 85
title: Incident
label: 4; pagenum: 115
label: 5
title: The Politics of Evasion; pagenum: 137
label: 6
title: Crisis; pagenum: 168
label: 7
title: Appointment in Asmara; pagenum: 207
title: Intermission with Thunder Storms
label: 8; pagenum: 236
title: The Machine in the Mountains
label: 9; pagenum: 278
title: End of a Beginning
label: 10; pagenum: 315
label: 11
title: Invictus; pagenum: 355
title: NOTES; pagenum: 366
title: A NOTE OF USAGES AND LITERATURE; pagenum: 371
title: INDEX; pagenum: 383
title: PICTURE CREDITS