Great Britain. War Office.; Great Britain. Ministry of Information.

The Abyssinian campaigns ... The official story of the conquest of Italian East Africa: Issued for the war office by the ministry of information - London His Majesty's stationery office 1942 - ill.,22cm,143p. Includes 140 b/w photographs and 14 maps( p.5) - Army at war (London, England) .

The book contains 140 photographs taken during the campaigns , and a reproduction in black and white of a painting by Edward Bawen,War Office artist.(For the pictures on pp.43(left), and 50-53 the editors are indebted to "Time and Life').

THe front endpaper shows the Frontier in the North (Kassala) and the title-page the Frontier in the South (The Chalbi Dessert).

A timetable relating the campaigns chronologically is included on pp.6-7 Illustrated title on two leaves.
"Issued for the War Office by the Ministry of Information."--Page [4].


World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Africa, East.
Military campaigns
Africa, East.

940.5423 Gre/Aby