The Ethiopian revolution : war in the Horn of Africa /

The Ethiopian revolution : war in the Horn of Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gebru Tareke, 1940- author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009] ©2009
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 437 pages) : maps, plans
Language:	English
Series:	The Yale library of military history Yale library of military history.
Subject:	Eritrean-Ethiopian War, 1998-2000. Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1977-1979. Somali-Ethiopian Conflict, 1979- Ethiopia -- History -- 1974-1995. Eritrea -- History -- Revolution, 1962-1993. Eritrea. Ethiopia. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11299881

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ISBN:	9780300156157 0300156154 9780300141634 0300141637 1282352156 9781282352155 9786612352157 6612352159
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-423) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the 20th century. Here, Tareke brings to life the leading personalities in the domestic political struggles, strategies of the warring parties international actors, and key battles.
Other form:	Print version: Gebru Tareke, 1940- Ethiopian revolution. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009 9780300141634

Table of 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.