SUL CAMPO DI ADUA, Diario di Eduardo Ximenes Marzo-Giugno 1896.

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x Milano. Fratelli Treves, Editori. 1897. 4to. iv + 316 pp. Illustrated throughout with 200 text photographs, drawings and maps in the text. 5 large folding drawings showing the features of the landscape and a folding coloured map of the battle of Marzo, small tear to the fold. Bright crimson decorated cloth. Front and back joints reinforced with red paper tape, as issued. Gift inscription, dated Torino 1899 from Consolina Lev-Segte. Bright, and very fine copy. The Battle of Adwa was the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian forces defeated the Italian invading force on Sunday 1 March 1896, near the town of Adwa. The decisive victory thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial empire in the Horn of Africa. Two months after the defeat in the battle of Adua, in May1896 Eduardo Ximenes joined the mission that was to bury the bodies of the fallen. He follows the path of the Italian retreat backwards, gradually recording impressions, anecdotes, and the stories collected by the witnesses of one of the most serious tragedies in Italian military history. Among wounded veterans, mutilated askari, hostile natives and everywhere the remains of killed soldiers, "Sul campo di Adua" becomes a descent into hell that shows, from the pen of one of its supporters, all the contradictions and violence of European colonialism in Africa. With 200 vintage illustrations. N° de ref. del artículo 009794

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