At five am on the 3rd of October 1935 Italian forces crossed into Abyssinia, modern day Ethiopia, signalling the start of the Second Italian-Abyssinian War. White House reveals source of ...

Thirty thousand gallons of airplane gasoline meanwhile arrived in Italian Somaliland, ready to power the bombers that Il Duce and Il Re may hurl against Abyssinia’s Emperor Power of Trinity ...

In 1935, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), the Fascist Duce of Italy since 1922, invaded Abyssinia, and on May 7 1936 declared the country to be annexed, as part of Italian East Africa, joined to the ...

When I used to read about the 1930s — the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the rise of fascism in Italy, Spain, and Germany, the appeasement in France and Britain, the murderous duplicity of the ...