The Ethiopian revolution

Gebru Tareke, 1940-

The Ethiopian revolution war in the Horn of Africa / [electronic resource] : Gebru Tareke ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009. - xx, 437 p. : maps, plans ; 25 cm. - The Yale library of military history. . - Yale library of military history. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-423) and index.

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.


Available electronically via the Internet.

9780300141634 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0300141637 (hardcover : alk. paper)


Eritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-2000.
Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1977-1979.
Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1979-


Ethiopia--History--1974-
Eritrea--History--Revolution, 1962-1993.

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