Hello and welcome to another World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace.

In the classic narrative the Second World War starts with the

In the invasion of Poland in 1939 though for the Chinese it started with the Japanese invasion of

Manchuria in 1931. I noticed Wikipedia solves this start date problem

by stating related conflicts started earlier.

And that's what we'll be looking at today, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 and

those foreigners who volunteered to fight for Haley Salasi.

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Right, so that's that's enough of that. I'm joined by Christopher O'than.

Christopher is the author of Lost Lions. of that I'm joined by Christopher Othon.

Christopher is the author of Lost Lions of Judah,

Haley Salas's Mongol foreign legion.

Now, my knowledge of the war

doesn't go much beyond Evelyn wars parody on it, scoop. So let's start by looking

at Ethiopia itself. What's it like before the war breaks out in 1935.

No, actually 34 is at the time when it all starts kicking off, but in that time, Ethiopia

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