THE ambitions of Italy to build up an empire in East Africa were evident even to such a casual visitor as I was. My reasons for being in Addis Ababa were strictly scientific, but if one is to do ...

ROME, Oct. 4, 1935 (UP) --"Tactical" airplane raids over an area 50 miles to the south of Aduwa in Ethiopia were admitted today in an official communiqué. League of Nations Council agrees to meet on ...

Warwick, Eng.: Helion / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2024. pp. 376. Illus., plates, maps, gloss., biblio. £33.75 / $69.95. ISBN: 1804512354 Italy’s Ethiopian Empire The ...

Before Mussolini invaded in 1935, Ethiopia had been the only African nation to stave off the feeding frenzy of European colonization. Black outrage over the attack extended all the way to Laurel, ...

The war against Abyssinia. This is a book designed not for the academic but for the general reader. And it succeeds in that context, but also is an excellent history in English of the war. Physically ...

As a mayoral commission evaluates dozens of Chicago monuments and statues deemed problematic, it will confront one memorial that has long been the focus of a dispute: the Balbo column in Burnham Park.