sentences:  The Eritreans took part in the entire campaign, fighting with the pro-AFDL alliance and covering over 1,500 km.According to expert Martin Plaut, this was "an extraordinary feat, especially for soldiers who walked the entire distance in gumboots, with little or no logistical support".By the end of the war, the Eritrean contingent was starving, exhausted, and ill; it had suffered numerous casualties due to the adverse conditions of the country.