Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia

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Number of Pages: 320

Amedeo’s story is full of vivid detail – Fascist Italy, his early years in Ethiopia commanding the Cossack-like Spahis, the brutal Abyssinian war waged by the Duce, Italian and British colonial rivalry; Amedeo led the last ever cavalry charge the British army faced (Eritrea 1941), defeat and guerrilla warfare against the British; then flight, imprisonment and a great love lost as he leaves his beloved Khadija behind to face her future alone and returns to Italy, to his fiancee and a career as a distinguished Italian diplomat and Arabist.