Weller's War - A legendary foreign correspondent's saga of World War II on five continents
After Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935, Haile Selassie famously warned League of Nations members that unless they stood up to imperial expansion, they would be next. So much for early warnings. Six years later, Italy's defeat signaled the remarkable resilience of the battered British. What lessons could be taken from that? One, certainly, is that once war gets under way, truth is an early casualty. Rarely acknowledged, the British had a lot of help from a most unlikely source, the Belgian Congo, and nearly all those fighting on both sides were Africans.