There Was a Country - A Personal History of Biafra, Chinua Achebe

The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and vivid first-hand observation, There Was a Country is a work of wisdom and compassion from one of the great voices of our age.

Author(s): Chinua Achebe 

Title:    There Was a Country - A Personal History of Biafra 

ISBN:   978 0 241 95920 6 

Publisher/place:  Penguin, London 

This edition/year of publication:  Penguin edition of 2013, 12th printing 

First Published: 2012 (Allen Lane, London) 

Language:  English 

Binding: paperback 

No. of pages:  333

Condition:  This item is sold brand new.