Biafra Genocide
Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970
$40.29
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2018
Summary
One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people—mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children—died in one of Africa’s first post-independence wars, but that until it happened the world thought Nigeria was immune from the wasting disease of tribalism. It certainly was not, because the Biafran War is still the most expansive tribal conflagration that the continent has experienced—barring perhaps the ongoing Great Lakes conflict—involving the forces of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526729132 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 152672913X |
| Author: | Al J. Venter |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Military |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 328g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Cold War 1945-1991 |
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Al J. Venter
Al J. Venter is a specialist military writer who has had over fifty books published. He started his career with International Defence Review, covering military developments in the Middle East and Africa. He has been writing on insurgencies across the globe for half a century, involved with Jane’s Information Group for more than thirty years. He was a stringer for the BBC, NBC News, as well as London’s Daily Express and Sunday Express. He branched into television work in the early 1980s, producing more than a hundred documentaries, including Africa’s Killing Fields, on the Ugandan civil war, and AIDS: The African Connection, which was nominated for a Pink Magnolia Award. His last major book, Portugal’s Guerrilla Wars in Africa, was nominated for New York’s Arthur Goodzeit military history book award. Venter writes extensively for several Pen & Sword military history series including ‘Cold War 1945-1991’, ‘Death Squads’ (on massacres and genocides) and ‘Architects of Terror’.
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