To relieve young Count Ciano’s ufficio stampa (Press Bureau) of any difficulty in explaining Italy’s future moves in Abyssinia, Dictator Mussolini as War Minister abruptly took over its functions.

With a firm, quick hand Benito Mussolini intervened through the Abyssinian Legation in Rome, managed to squelch that marriage. Should all else fail Power of Trinity, there is always his ...

Simple History. The Italian invasion of Abyssinia (1935-36) Posted: January 28, 2025 | Last updated: July 11, 2025. At five am on the 3rd of October 1935 Italian forces crossed into Abyssinia ...

Mussolini’s Conquest of Ethiopia. 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 the midst of Italy’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini’s 19-year-old son Vittorio, a pilot in the Regia Aeronautica, published an account of an air raid, writing, “I still ...

THIS is easily the best account of the rise and decline of Italian Fascism available in the English language. The only work of comparable depth and seriousness is Herman Finer’s Mussolini’s Italy.