Days of Emperor and Clown: The Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-1936
James Dugan, Laurence LaforeThe book also reminds us that the wrong done to Abyssinia evoked protests which earlier colonialist ventures in Africa had failed to elicit, and that these were not directed solely at its perpetrator. (Many Englishmen, indeed, were just as angry with their own Government for not preventing the crime as they were with Mussolini for committing it.) Britain and France, it was said, ought to have deprived Mussolini's troops in East Africa of supplies, either by closing the Suez Canal to Italian shipping or by giving a lead to members of the League of Nations willing to put an embargo on trade with Italy.
Laurence Lafore, using material assembled over a long period by the late James Dugan, gives a lively, well‐documented account of the conflict and the events that led to it.