For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967?1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making,?There Was a Country?is?a towering account of one of modern Africa?s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection,?There Was a Country?is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe?s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.

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