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.

The Abyssinian affair ended shamefully, after Hoare and Pierre Laval, with the broad assent of our Cabinet, cooked up a plan in December 1935 to reach a compromise with Mussolini whereby he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...