The Italian Invasion of Abyssinia 1935-36: No.309 (Men-at-Arms)

by Dr David Nicolle (Author), Dr David Nicolle (Author), Raffaele Ruggeri (Illustrator)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $9.66

  An account of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. It took just seven months to defeat Emperor Haile Salassie, using poison gas against an army equipped mostly with medieval weapons. The campaign was an important lesson to Nazi Germany of the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations.

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  Paperback
  1997

  $13.63

  An account of the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935. It took just seven months to defeat Emperor Haile Salassie, using poison gas against an army equipped mostly with medieval weapons. The campaign was an important lesson to Nazi Germany of the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations.