Mussolini, Mustard Gas and the Fascist Way of War: Ethiopia, 1935-1936

“Physically the book is well produced, has numerous maps where they need to be in the text and is well footnoted… a must read in English for understanding the war.” -The NYMAS Review

In early October 1935 and without any declaration of war some two hundred thousand men, comprising soldiers and airmen of the Italian armed forces, Fascist ‘Blackshirt’ Militia, Eritrean ascari and Somali dubats, invaded the independent state of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). It was an operation entirely of choice, the c...