Posted April 01, 2009 by Lauren in Agency Deals
University of Washington historian Raymond Jonas' WHEN THE WORLD TURNED: HOW AN AFRICAN ARMY DEFEATED THEIR EUROPEAN COLONIZERS AT THE BATTLE OF ADWA, ETHIOPIA, 1896, the monumental story of European hubris and African determination that is filled with clashing armies, strategic blunders and the pomp of the royal court of Ethiopia's King Menelik and Queen Taitou who outwitted the Italian pretenders at nearly every turn and provided the beginning of the end of Africa's colonial era, to Kathleen McDermott at Harvard University Press, for publication in 2011, by Dan O'Connell
