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Waugh in Abyssinia Book
Scoop is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible. They swear by?and along with generations of general readers laugh at?the zany antics of reporters in fictional Ishmaelia. Few readers, however, are acquainted with Waugh?s memoir of his stint as a London Daily Mail correspondent in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) during the Italian invasion in the 1930s. An entertaining account by a cantankerous and unenthusiastic war reporter, Waugh in Abyssinia provides a fascinating short history of Mussolini's imperial adventure as well as a wickedly witty preview of the characters and follies that figure into Waugh?s famous satire. In a new foreword, veteran foreign correspondent John Maxwell Hamilton explores how Waugh ended up in Abyssinia, which reallife events were fictionalized in … read more...
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