The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
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The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste
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“The Shadow King” is a beautiful historical novel by Ethiopian-American writer Maaza Mengiste. The story sheds light on a lesser-known aspect of World War II: the women soldiers who were often left out of the historical record.

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Maaza Mengiste

The Shadow King is about the Ethiopian women who fought Mussolini’s invasion in 1935, and Mengiste found it in her own family: a great-grandmother who went to court to claim her dead father’s rifle, because the alternative was being married off with it as part…

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World War I History World War II History WWI Fiction WWII Fiction MORE

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