Mussolini, Mustard Gas and the Fascist Way of War HC25 Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphant

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Mussolini, Mustard Gas and the Fascist Way of War HC25 Pamuk’s Istanbul is a triumphantIn early October 1935 and without any declaration of war some two hundred thousand men, comprising soldiers and airmen of the Italian armed forces, Fascist Blackshirt Militia, Eritrean ascari and Somali dubats, invaded the independent state of Ethiopia (Abyssinia). It was an operation entirely of choice, the chooser being Il Duce: Benito Mussolini. The resultant conflict is often described as a colonial war. Whilst it was certainly launched with the