The Plot to Kill Graziani

The Plot to Kill Graziani is the first major and very successful- work to reconstruct the full history of the assassination attempt on Graziani on February 19, 1937 and its bloody consequences ... Its virtue is that it does not content itself with Italian sources, which it finds to be wanting on many counts. Rather, it draws heavily on oral information obtained from members of the families of the participants or from their followers or friends. It scrapes together facts from whatever written sources have survived from the Ethiopian side to substantiate more firmly information obtained from…