Holy War
the untold story of catholic italy's crusade against the ethiopian orthodox church
$38.14
- Paperback
488 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2024
Summary
Holy War: Italy’s Crusade Against Ethiopia
In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia, igniting a chain of events that led to World War II. Historian Ian Campbell offers a groundbreaking perspective, revealing how the Italian Catholic Church facilitated the invasion, sanctifying it as a crusade against one of the world’s oldest national Churches. Cardinals and archbishops rallied Catholic Italy to support Mussolini’s armies by denouncing Ethiopian Christians and proclaiming the onslaug…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781805260240 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805260243 |
| Author: | Ian Campbell |
| Publisher: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 488 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 586g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm |
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‘Three cheers for Holy War [which] has turned the caring Italian Army myth upside down and inside out in what is the perfect antidote to Louis de Bernieres’ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. […] Holy War is the ‘go for’ book if you want to learn as much as you need to know about an invasion that helped shape the rest of the 1930s, a paving stone towards World War in 1939.’
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Ian Campbell
Ian Campbell is an independent scholar and international consultant. He has written several books on the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, including ‘The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy’s National Shame’, which was a ‘Financial Times’ History Book of the Year (2017), and has been published in Italian translation.
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