Full name: Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941

Author: Jeff Pearce Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Non Fiction Cultures: Africa, Italy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781629145280 9781510718654 1629145289 1510718656

It was the war that changed everything, and yet it's been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean for a white-knuckle showdown with Italian ships, riots broke out in major cities all over the United States. Italian planes dropped poison gas on Ethiopian troops, bombed Red Cross hospitals, and committed atrocities that were never deemed worthy of a war crimes tribunal. But unlike the many other depressing tales of Africa that crowd book shelves, this is a gripping thriller, a rousing tale of real-life heroism in which the Ethiopians come back from near destruction and win. Tunnelling through archive records, tracking down survivors still alive today, and uncovering never-before-seen photos, Jeff Pearce recreates a remarkable era and reveals astonishing new findings. He shows how the British Foreign Office abandoned the Ethiopians to their fate, while Franklin Roosevelt had an ambitious peace plan that could have changed the course of world history-had Chamberlain not blocked him with his policy on Ethiopia. And Pearce shows how modern propaganda techniques, the post-war African world, and modern peace movements all were influenced by this crucial conflict-a war in Africa that truly changed the world. Similar books: Zulu Rising by Ian Knight Italy's Sorrow by James Holland Three Empires on the Nile by Dominic Green Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure by Giles Foden 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff WAR by Sebastian Junger Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan The British Are Coming by Rick Atkinson The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan