The Campaign of Adowa and the Rise of Menelik

"The work of F. H. Berkeley...the best that one can desire as a descriptive narrative of a battle which, from the military point of view, represents the peculiar phenomenon of a European army annihilated by a native African race, and from the political point of view it shows to what a dangerous path a nation can be led by unrestricted colonial ambition." - The Westminster Review (1904) "This is the one thorough account in English of the military operations which culminated in the tragedy of Adow