My Life and Ethiopia's Progress

He began writing it while in exile in Bath, England during that war; it covers his life and the administration and modernization of Ethiopia up to that point.

Both volumes were edited extensively by assistant writers after Haile Selassie I's return to Ethiopia.

[1][2] Haile Selassie I wrote with an eye towards the political impact of publication, and addressed questions about the legitimacy of his power and position, and about his flight into exile in 1936.

[3] In 1976 it was translated from Amharic into English and annotated by Edward Ullendorff in an Oxford University Press publication.

[4] Haile Selassie wrote in the preface: This article about a biographical or autobiographical book on royalty is a stub.