An Improvised War : The Abyssinian Campaign of 1940-41

xxii, 202pp plus several sections on monochrome plate illustrations. Maps and charts. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original price-clipped dust jacket (very slightly bumped at spine tips, mildly sunned spine). The campaign in Ethiopia, described by Wavell as an improvisation after the British fashion, was the first allied victory of the second world war. Michael Glover combines the critical eye of the strategist with the panoptic vision of the historian to reassess one of World War Two’s least remembered but unusual campaigns. 8vo.