Lion by the Tail: The Story of the Italian-Ethiopian War
Place_Pub: New York: The Viking Press, 1974. 369, illus., endpaper maps, notes, bibliography, index, text slightly darkened, DJ somewhat soiled, sm edge tears at DJ spine. DJ spine somewhat discolored. The author argues that reasonable firmness on the part of the French, British, and American governments would have prevented Mussolini's vicious gamble, and would thereby have warned Adolf Hitler against adapting the Italian dictator's means to his own ends. Condition: good, fair to good.
Keywords: Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, Benito Mussolini, Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare, Stanley Baldwin, Pierre Laval, Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler
ISBN: 0670429651
[Book #52124]
Price: $45.00