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The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame

The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame Hardcover - 2017

by Campbell, Ian

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New York: Oford University Press, 2017. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xliv, 478pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in green cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenseless residents of Addis Ababa. In three terror-filled days and nights of arson, murder and looting, thousands of innocent and unsuspecting men, women and children were roasted alive, shot, bludgeoned, stabbed to death, or blown to pieces with hand-grenades. Meanwhile the notorious Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, infamous for his atrocities in Libya, took the opportunity to add to the carnage by eliminating the intelligentsia and nobility of the ancient Ethiopian empire in a pogrom that swept across the land. In a richly illustrated and ground-breaking work backed up by meticulous and scholarly research, Ian Campbell reconstructs and analyses one of Fascist Italy's least known atrocities, which he estimates eliminated 19-20 per cent of the capital's population. He exposes the hitherto little known cover-up conducted at the highest levels of the British government, which enabled the facts of one of the most hideous civilian massacres of all time to be concealed, and the perpetrators to walk free.(Publisher).
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  • Title The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame
  • Author Campbell, Ian
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oford University Press, New York
  • Date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 15265
  • ISBN 9780190674724 / 0190674725
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.2 in (21.84 x 14.22 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: East Africa
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Ethiopia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017446573

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About the author

Ian Campbell, a development consultant specializing in East Africa, has been studying and writing on Ethiopia since 1988. The author of several scholarly papers on various aspects of Ethiopian cultural history, his works on the Italian occupation (1936-41) include The Plot to Kill Graziani and The Massacre of Debre Libanos.

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