Download or read book The First Battlefield of World War II written by Gregory Friedlander and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a northern desert in Africa lies an oasis. A few trees grow there, a few spiny, stunted desert plants and a well surrounded by sand in as an isolated a place as exists on dry land. It could be said the first battlefield of World War II was the last battlefield of World War I. But World war I ended. World War II must have begun afterwards and the starting place for World War II was this Oasis. This book is a work of fiction, but if it has a historical thesis, then the thesis of this book is this; World War II started with a battle around the time of American Thanksgiving in 1934 at the Wal Wal desert oasis. Like the events which started WWI, the participants were quickly marginalized by subsequent events. For a short period of time, one of the combatants on the winning side of World War I, engaged in a horrible war history largely chose to forget. The war began in Ethiopia, the first battlefield of World War II and the last battlefield of Africa colonialism. Africa for a short time was fully colonialized and so damaged politically it never fully recovered. The horrors of World War II resulted from collusion, tacit or otherwise, allowing the belligerents to act against a peaceful African nation, a member of the league of nations. This is not speculation this is history. Little of this appears in popular history. Most histories, at most, show one or two photographs. These preserve none of the horrors of what would become known as the Second Absinthian war. There is little if anything about this battle resulting in World War II except in scholarly texts. This story is a work of fiction, but the battlefield which is described in this book existed and the battles took place, much as it is laid out.