HELLHOLE OF CREATION—L. M. Nesbitt—Knopf ($3.75). If Mussolini's cheering troops had to footslog their way into Abyssinia from the blanketing coast of Eritrea, their cheers would not ...

Charge and countercharge cracked back & forth last week between Benito Mussolini and Ethiopia’s kinky-haired Emperor Power of Trinity I, as to whose soldiers attacked first at Ualual in eastern ...

Benito Mussolini's devoted subjects made pilgrimages to his birthplace and sent him 1,500 letters a day. ... Admittedly, the Abyssinian adventure of 1935-36 had been popular, ...

When Mussolini invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in October 1935, Italians were filled with jingoist triumphalism. Oilcloth maps went up in schools to show the dictator's rapid African conquests.

Roger Donaldson has come aboard to develop “Abyssinia” with the intent of directing the epic love story framed by Mussolini’s World War II invasion of Ethiopia. Project’s set up at ...

If Mussolini were in fact preparing to fight Abyssinia, he would be wise to arrange for shutting off his enemy’s supply of munitions. On the whole, then, the concessions received by Italy in Africa ...

In 1935, the Morning Post sent a young journalist to Abyssinia to cover the imminent war with Italy. There he met Evelyn Waugh, whose impressions of his fellow reporters and their escapades formed ...

Mubi has acquired the Joe Wright-directed drama series “Mussolini: Son of the Century” for North America, Latin America, Belgium, Luxembourg, Turkey, India and New Zealand in a multi-territory ...

Benito Mussolini was not the bumbling buffoon portrayed in popular culture, but the most powerful force behind the rise of European Fascism before World War Two. Using archival material kept across ...

Following the Abyssinia Crisis in 1935-36, ... Mussolini then tried to flee the country with his mistress Clara Petacci to Switzerland but both were captured by communist partisans and executed by ...