Download Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941 AudioBook Free
It had been the warfare that altered everything, and yet it's been typically ignored: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated papers headlines and newsreels. It influenced mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the English Navy sailed in to the Mediterranean for a white-knuckle showdown with Italian boats, riots broke out in major places all over the USA. Italian planes decreased poison gas on Ethiopian troops, bombed Red Combination hospitals, and determined atrocities that were never deemed worth a war crimes tribunal. But unlike the countless other depressing stories of Africa that group book cabinets, this is a gripping thriller, a rousing story of real-life heroism in which the Ethiopians come back from near devastation and gain. Tunneling through archive data, searching for survivors still alive today, and uncovering never-before-seen images, Jeff Pearce recreates a exceptional era and uncovers astonishing new findings. He shows the way the Uk Foreign Office left behind the Ethiopians to their destiny, while Franklin Roosevelt possessed an ambitious calmness plan which could have altered the course of world history possessed Chamberlain not blocked him with his insurance policy on Ethiopia. And Pearce shows how modern propaganda techniques, the post-war African world, and modern calmness movements all were influenced by this important conflict a warfare in Africa that truly altered the world.