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    Mussolini, Mustard Gas and the Fascist Way of War: Ethiopia, 1935-1936
    Mussolini, Mustard Gas and the Fascist Way of War: Ethiopia, 1935-1936
    Mussolini, Mustard Gas and the Fascist Way of War: Ethiopia, 1935-1936
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    Mussolini, Mustard Gas and the Fascist Way of War: Ethiopia, 1935-1936

    By Charles Stephenson

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    An examination of the first conflict to see the large-scale, systematic, deployment of chemical weaponry since the end of World War I.

    In early October 1935 and without any declaration of war some two hundred thousand men, comprising soldiers and airmen of the Italian armed forces, Fascist ‘Blackshirt’ Militia, Eritrean ascari and Somali dubats, invaded the independent state of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). It was an operation entirely of choice, the chooser being Il Duce: Benito Mussolini. The resultant conflict is often described as a colonial war. while it was certainly launched with the intent of turning Ethiopia into an Italian possession, it was in fact a war of aggression against an independent, sovereign, state with membership of the League of Nations. A state that had, according to one of its nineteenth-century rulers, been ‘for fourteen centuries a Christian island in a sea of pagans’.

    The swiftness of the Italian victory resulted from their possession and ruthless use of technology; most particularly aircraft, mustard gas, and motorisation/mechanisation. Since they were fighting an enemy who possessed none of these things, then they were able to wage, indeed inaugurate, what the prominent military theorist JFC Fuller dubbed ‘totalitarian warfare’ or, as it became known a few years later, total war. This, he opined, was the Fascist, the scientific, way of making war. In his considered view, the Fascist Army that waged it was ‘a scientific military instrument.’ This book examines that campaign in military and political terms.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateApr 18, 2024
    ISBN9781399051682
    Mussolini, Mustard Gas and the Fascist Way of War: Ethiopia, 1935-1936
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    Charles Stephenson

    Charles Stephenson is an established author on naval and siege warfare and the history of fortifications, with the following books in print: The Fortifications of Malta 1530-1945, Zeppelins: German Airships 1900-40, The Channel Islands 1941-45: Hitler's Impregnable Fortress, The Admirals Secret Weapon: Lord Dundonald and the Origins of Chemical Warfare and Germanys Asia-Pacific Empire: Colonialism and Naval Policy, 1885-1914. He was Consultant Editor and a contributor to Castles: A History of Fortified Structures: Ancient, Medieval & Modern. He is also the creator of the three books that (thus far) constitute the Samson Plews Collection.

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