Research Catalog

Title

Fascist Italian brutality in Ethiopia, 1935-1937 : an eyewitness account / by Sáska László (aka Ladislas Sava) ; introduction by Sylvia Pankhurst ; translated from Hungarian by Menczer Béla ; edited by Szélinger Balázs.

Author

László, Sáska, 1890-1978

Publication

Trenton : Red Sea Press, 2015.

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Details

Description

xii, 165 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Graziani, Rodolfo, 1882-1955 > Assassination attempt, 1937
• László, Sáska, 1890-1978
• 1889-1974
• Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 > Atrocities
• Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936 > Personal narratives, Hungarian
• Atrocities > Ethiopia
• Hungarians > Ethiopia
• Ethiopia > History > 1889-1974

Genre/Form

• History
• Personal narratives – Hungarian

Note

• Originally published in "New Time and Ethiopia News" as a serial in 28 parts between July 1940 and February 1941.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why is it important to re-publish? -- Ethiopia under Mussolini's rule: an eye-witness account of what happened when the Italians marched in -- The author's preface -- Italian intrigues in Abyssinia to disorganise Abyssinia -- Italian provocations: Abyssinian patience -- Mussolini stigmatises Ethiopia's European friends as "White negroes" -- Red Cross bombed -- The emperor's exile -- Looting of Addis Ababa -- Italian responsibility -- All communications with Europe cut -- Trophies removed to Italy -- Goods of the White residents annexed for Italian Army -- Italian criminals rob Abyssinian homes -- Silent protest of Abyssinian women -- The policy of extermination -- Organised vice and its punishment -- Mussolini, "master of the world" -- Robbery in the market -- The colour bar -- Robbery and violence -- Gold and currency -- Suppression of Ethiopian courts produces chaos -- European residents robbed -- Graziani a godfather -- Widow turned out of home -- How rents were reduced -- Why Ethiopian chiefs were taken to Rome -- Chiefs flung out of aeroplanes -- People killed for being educated -- Murder of priests -- How Bishop Petros died -- The mock Abuna Abraham -- Unhappy Italian workers -- Italians forbidden to return to Italy -- Food queues and disorder -- Getting hold of dollars -- The attempt on the life of Graziani -- How the fatal bombs were obtained -- fishing with hand-grenades -- The bomb-throwing at the palace -- The great massacre organised -- The horror of the night -- Officers and their wives survey the murdering -- A second night of massacre -- Third day of Addis Ababa massacrre -- Murder of the educated young men -- German missionary threatened with death -- Family burnt to death for possessing emperor's portrait -- The laughing Mussolini -- Looting of St. George's Cathedral.

ISBN

• 9781569024157 (hb)
• 1569024154 (hb)
• 9781569024164 (pb)
• 1569024162 (pb)

LCCN

^^2015006903

OCLC

• 903812804
• SCSB-12179776

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library