The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame

by Ian Campbell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190674725
• ISBN13: 9780190674724
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"