Waugh in Abyssinia

Waugh Evelyn

Published by Penguin


In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa
to cover the conflict.

Waugh in Abyssinia is an acerbic look at the intrigues and political machinations leading up to the crisis, coupled with an amusing account of the
often bizarre and seldom straightforward life of a war correspondent rubbing shoulders with double-dealing officials, Arab spies, pyjama-wearing radicals and disgruntled journalists.

Witty, lucid and penetrating, Evelyn Waugh succeeds in disentangling the complexities of a feudal society caught up in twentieth-century politics and confrontation.