The Ethiopian revolution : war in the Horn of Africa / Gebru Tareke ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gebru Tareke, 1940-
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009], ©2009.
Series:Yale library of military history.
Subjects:
Ethiopia > History > 1974-1995.
Eritrea > History > Revolution, 1962-1993.
Eritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-2000.
Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1977-1979.
Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1979-
Physical Description:xx, 437 pages : maps, plans ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The specter of revolution and war
  • Roots and outcomes of revolution: a review
  • Comrades against comrades
  • The victorious nationalists: insurgent Eritrea
  • The victorious ethnonationalists: insurgent Tigray
  • The vanquished revolutionary army: birth and evolution
  • The vanquished revolutionary army: defeat and demise
  • Battlefield Ethiopia
  • Ogaden: "socialist" neighbors at war
  • Nakfa: "even the mountains fought"
  • Af Abet: Ethiopia's Dienbienphu?
  • Shire: "unexpected grand failure"
  • Massawa: the denouement
  • Conclusions
  • 1998: postscript.