An Improvised War: The Abyssinian Campaign of 1940-1941

xxii, 201 pp. "The campaign in Ethiopia, described by Wavell as 'an improvisation after the British fashion in War', was the first allied victory of the Second World War and one of the most remarkable. "Has any campaign in history", asked Compton Mackenzie, "lasting two months, produced from two divisions a fighting army commander, two fighting corps commanders, and seven fighting divisional commanders within four years? It may be doubted." It may indeed. Michael Glover admirably combines the critical eye of the strategist with the panoptic vision of the historian in this highly readable reappraisal of one of the Second World War's least remembered but most unusual campaigns."