Shallow Graves: A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War

260 Pages·2020·2.942 MB·English

by  Richard Reid

SHALLOW GRAVES

RICHARD REID
Shallow Graves
A Memoir of the Ethiopia–Eritrea War
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Glossary x
Preface xiii
1. Children of the Sixties, 1 1
2. Fragments of a War 47
3. Dreams of Abyssinia 75
4. Th e Emperor 99
5. Children of the Sixties, 2 127
6. The Upside Down 157
7. M oving Time 175
Postscript 197
A Bibliographical Note 211
Notes 215
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