- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Leo Cooper Ltd.; New edition edition (March 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0850528542
- ISBN-13: 978-0850528541
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 15.5 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 608 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,822,021 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
This stunning narrative marked the turning point in the writing career of Frederick Forsyth, who subsequently wrote The Dogs of War and The Day of the Jackal. Previously, Forsyth had been a journalist but his book on Biafra marked his remarkable debut as an author. Largely forgotten today, Biafra was a breakaway province of Nigeria and the scene of a bloody civil war in the 1960s. Biafra's population largely consisted of the minority Ibo people, who were in revolt against Nigeria's majority Hausa and Fulani people. While the world community today looks with more favor on secessionist regimes, in the 1960s, both East and West united against Biafra, with only France providing assistance to the rebels.
Biafra's defeat was followed by a series of massacres by both official and mutinous Nigerian troops, further compounded by disease and famine. This disturbing work has been unavailable for 20 years, but now has come back into print when its relevance to a world of civil wars and ethnic cleansing is greater than ever. This narrative of Third World civil strife and Great Power duplicity is made even more compelling by the skills of a master storyteller.
About the Author
Frederick Forsyth has written a succession of major best sellers, many of which have been turned into box office blockbusters. Dogs of War, The Fourth Protocol, The Day of the Jackal, The Deceivers to name but four all bear the stamp of his masterly story telling and thorough research.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Unjustly forgotten classic of the Biafran War,
By Virgil "Virgil" (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Biafra Story: The Making of an African Legend (Hardcover)
Forsyth is known for his later works the "Day of the Jackal", "Odessa File" and "Dogs of War". This though is his first book and in many ways superior to the rest.A non-fiction detailed description of the Biafran war, Forsyth pulls no punches describing the valiant but fruitless fight by the Ibo tribe to secede from Nigeria. Outnumbered, outgunned and out financed by the central government, the Ibo finally fell because of the support of the European powers for Nigeria. Forsyth does a wonderful job in giving us a journalist eye view of the conflict which eventually became known more for the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Ibo. A long forgotten classic that has never been outdone by his later novels.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A touching book,
By Kemayou (Cameroon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Biafra Story: The Making of an African Legend (Hardcover)
I have read most of Forsyth's books and this is the first book where he treated a major conflict, especially one that is not of the western world. Overall it was very insightful and life DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE, KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST, SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL, it gives the reader the opportunity to understand African conflicts and the pattern of genocides that have taken place or taking place in the continent.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best chronicle of the suffering of the igbo people,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Biafra Story: The Making of an African Legend (Hardcover)
Mr. Forsyth in this book became the voice of millions of suffering Biafrans whose sin was a determination to exist against all odds.His analysis captured the brutality of the Nigerian soldiers while the rest of the world fell victim to the deceit of the pronouncements of the Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces...General Yakubu Gowon.
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