Birth and Fall of an Empire - Massimiliano Afiero, Ralph Riccio

Analyzes the principal Italian military operations in East Africa, with particular focus on the period between 1940 and 1941.ItalyÂ’s colonial adventure in East Africa, which had begun in the previous century and which ended abruptly with the disastrous defeat at Adua in 1896, regained impetus with the advent of Fascism which subsequently opened a campaign to expand Italian holdings in the so-called ‘Horn of AfricaÂ’. With the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935–1936, Italy invaded the Empire of Ethiopia... Zobrazit více