Table of Contents
Dedication v
List of Illustrations and Photo Credits vi
Foreword Richard Pankhurst xi
Preface to the Paperback Edition xiii
Note on Names xvii
Maps xviii
Part 1 Resist
Introduction 3
Chapter 1 The Duce and the Eternal City 11
Chapter 2 The Negus and the New Flower 26
Chapter 3 A Silent Room in Stresa 46
Chapter 4 Bluster 63
Chapter 5 Colors of Conscience 83
Chapter 6 The Brink 103
Chapter 7 "I Hope the Organmen Gas Them to Buggery" 124
Part 2 Endure
Chapter 8 War 143
Chapter 9 A Season of Betrayals 161
Chapter 10 Schemes … 182
Chapter 11 … And Downfalls 213
Chapter 12 "The Rain That Burns and Kills 229
Chapter 13 The Old Man on the Mountain 248
Chapter 14 "… If You Think It Better to Come Here and Die with Us …" 276
Chapter 15 A King's Lonely Prayer 296
Part 3 Prevail
Chapter 16 Taken Up to Rome 319
Chapter 17 "What Answer Am I to Take Back to My People?" 343
Chapter 18 The Pride of Lions 361
Chapter 19 Abattoir 388
Chapter 20 Eden Bows Our 420
Chapter 21 A Volcano, Permanently Simmering 443
Chapter 22 Day of Deliverance 462
Chapter 23 Champagne and Jazz Records 486
Chapter 24 "That Was Another War" 505
Chapter 25 Epilogue of Stones 534
Notes 553
Acknowledgments 591
Select Bibliography 595
Index 605