biafra story (70 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In his autobiography, Max Hastings records his experiences reporting from the battlefields of Northern Ireland, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, Rhodesia and other trouble spots. It is also the story of a self-confessed coward, a writer with heroic ambitions but knowing he did not have what it takes to be a hero himself. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. We could always go overland now that we have wheels, Ross had suggested out of the blue. Id pulled out an atlas and wed traced a route down through Africa via countries still marked with their colonial names. Only two strips of water interrupted the flow of land between Edinburgh and Chingola; the English Channel and the Straits of Gibraltar. Fourteen months had passed since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon so Africa couldnt be that difficult, could it? A month later we boarded the ferry for Calais. In 1970 newly-weds Ross and Sara set off, with extraordinary naivety and a lack of proper preparation, to drive from Edinburgh to Zambia in a standard saloon car. Appointment in Zambia is the story of their epic car journey. Sara was 21 (and could not drive) and Ross was 23 when they and their brand new Hillman Hunter (in Golden Sand, a colour chosen before theyd opted to drive through the Sahara.) started out. For eight weeks, in a trip of over 20 000 kms, they slept in the car, coped with illness and looked up the barrel of rifles from the wrong end. Apart from the car their only technology was a compass. Their journey encompassed the Sahara, where they had to dig themselves out of trouble with Tupperware containers. They also braved war-torn Biafra, navigated storm-wrecked roads through equatorial forests and traversed the main tributary of the Congo River (on a raft cobbled together with dug-out canoes by locals). They met lepers, pygmies, drunken officials, prostitutes and missionaries while their journey took them across 13 countries with widely different frontiers, customs, currencies and language before they reached Chingola just in time for Ross to start his new job. Appointment in Zambia is a unique take on an epic journey a young couple and their basic car travel acrosss Africa, not because they want to challenge themselves and prove something, but because they decide its the best way to get to a new job in Zambia. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of Ijeoma's faith, test her resolve and flood her heart. In this masterful novel of faith, love and redemption, Okparanta takes us from Ijeoma's childhood in war-torn Biafra, through the perils and pleasures of her blossoming sexuality, her wrong turns, and into the everyday sorrows and joys of marriage and motherhood. As we journey with Ijeoma we are drawn to the question: what is the value of love and what is the cost? A triumphant love story written with beauty and delicacy, Under the Udala Trees is a hymn to those who've lost and a prayer for a more compassionate world. It is a work of extraordinary beauty that will enrich your heart. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes this long-awaited memoir recalling Chinua Achebe's personal experiences of and reflections on the Biafran War, one of Nigeria's most tragic civil wars Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, was a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. There Was a Country was his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-1970. It became infamous around the world for its impact on the Biafrans, who were starved to death by the Nigerian government in one of the twentieth century's greatest humanitarian disasters. Caught up in the atrocities were Chinua Achebe and his young family. Achebe, already a world-renowned novelist, served his Biafran homeland as a roving cultural ambassador, witnessing the war's full horror first-hand. Immediately after the war, he took an academic post in the United States, and for over forty years he maintained a considered silence on those terrible years, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. After years in the making There Was a Country presents his towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful experiences, both as he lived it and eventually came to understand it. Marrying history and memoir, with the author's poetry woven throughout, There Was a Country is a distillation of vivid observation and considered research and reflection. It relates Nigeria's birth pangs in the context of Achebe's own development as a man and a writer, and examines the role of the artist in times of war. Reviews: 'No writer is better placed than Chinua Achebe to tell the story of the Nigerian Biafran war . [The book] makes you pine for the likes of Achebe to govern . We have in There Was a Country an elegy from a master storyteller who has witnessed the undulating fortunes of a nation' Noo Saro-Wiwa, Guardian 'Chinua Achebe's history of Biafra is a meditation on the condition of freedom. It has the tense narrative grip of the best fiction. It is also a revelatory entry into the intimate character of the writer's brilliant mind and bold spirit. Achebe has created here a new genre of literature' Nadine Gordimer 'Part-history, part-memoir, [Achebe's] moving account of the war is laced with anger, but there is also an abiding tone of regret for what Nigeria might have been without conflict and mismanagement' Sunday Times About the author: Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He published novels, short stories, essays, and children's books. His volume of poetry, Christmas in Biafra, was the joint winner of the first Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Of his novels, Arrow of God won the New Statesman-Jock Campbell Award, and Anthills of the Savannah was a finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize. Things Fall Apart, Achebe's masterpiece, has been published in fifty different languages and has sold more than ten million copies. Achebe lectured widely, receiving many honors from around the world, amongst them the Nigerian National Merit Award, Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize. He died in March 2013. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

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Zustand: very good. London : Intermediate Technology Publishers, 1995. Paperback. 286 pp.- Written by an insider, this study of international development agencies ranges from Biafra to Rwanda, from administrative costs to participatory development, from the bright hopes of the 1960s to the implications of the latest Mexican financial crisis. The phenomenon of the transnational mega-charity is examined as are the threats to the independence of voluntary organizations from governments, UN agencies and from charities themselves. This is also a story about lessons of heroism and folly, of bungling and luck and failure - and of achievements that have improved the lives of millions. Library stamps. English text. Condition : very good. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9781853393013. Keywords : ,

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist instead. Before he was 30 he had reported conflicts in Northern Ireland, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, Cyprus, Rhodesia, India and a string of other trouble spots. His final effort was as a war correspondent during the Falklands War. Going to the Wars is a story of his experiences reporting from these battlefields. It is also the story of a self-confessed coward: a writer with heroic ambitions who found himself recording the acts of heroes. 'Max Hastings is one of the greatest living war correspondents.' John Keegan 'A wonderful account of the wars of our times.' William Shawcross, Literary Review 'His memoirs have .honesty, pace and readability.' Jeremy Paxman 'The chapters on the Falklands War are .one of the best things written about warfare in half a century.' John Simpson, Daily Telegraph 'This memoir is a first-class piece of reportage.' Jon Swain, Sunday Times. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Hardcover. 288pp. Foxing to edges of textblock, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Zustand: Gut. Deutsche Erstausgabe. 512 Seiten. Guter Zustand. - Frederick Forsyth, CBE, (* 25. August 1938 in Ashford, Kent, England) ist ein britischer Schriftsteller. Leben und Beruf: Militärzeit: Forsyth war von 1956 bis 1958 (und mit 19 Jahren der jüngste) Pilot bei der britischen Luftwaffe (Royal Air Force). Journalist: Danach arbeitete er als Reporter für die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters, sowohl in England als auch Frankreich, Spanien, Belgien, der DDR, der BRD und der Tschechoslowakei; eine Arbeit, die ihn mit der Welt der internationalen Politik in Berührung brachte. Berichterstattungen aus Kriegsgebieten Afrikas als Fernsehreporter für die BBC (Biafra-Krieg) weckten sein Interesse an geschichtlichen und politischen Hintergründen und motivierten The Biafra Story. Schriftsteller: Aus der journalistischen Erfahrung heraus begann er dann um 1970 seine literarische Laufbahn. Aufgrund seiner Reisen in Europa, dem Nahen Osten und Afrika, sowie seiner Sprachkenntnisse (Französisch, Deutsch, Spanisch) gelingt Frederick Forsyth eine lebendige und wirklichkeitsnahe Darstellung. Frederick Forsyths Romane sind hauptsächlich politische Thriller. Die beiden ersten Bücher (Der Schakal, Die Akte Odessa) waren gleich große Erfolge. Der Autor verbindet in seinen Werken immer wieder tatsächliche mit fiktiven Ereignissen. Beim Schakal mit den Aktionen der OAS in ihrem Kampf gegen die Unabhängigkeit von Algerien, bei der Akte Odessa werden Netzwerke von untergetauchten Nationalsozialisten und deren Verbindungen zu den arabischen Staaten im Vorfeld des Sechstagekrieges mit Israel thematisiert. Das Buch Der Rächer knüpft an die kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen im früheren Jugoslawien Anfang der neunziger Jahre an. In der Novelle Der Lotse" bringt Frederick Forsyth seine Erfahrungen als Pilot in der britischen Luftwaffe ein. Die Geschichte handelt von einem Piloten, der sich am Heiligabend 1957, 12 Jahre nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs auf dem Heimflug von Deutschland nach England, wegen eines technischen Defekts, im Nebel verirrt und von einem geheimnisvollen Piloten in einem veralteten Kampfflugzeug sicher zu einer stillgelegten RAF-Basis geleitet wird. Der Lotse" hat sich in Kanada zu einer traditionell am Heiligen Abend im Radio vorgelesenen Geschichte entwickelt. Konservativer: In einem offenen Brief an Ministerpräsident Erwin Teufel schreibt Forsyth, als Konservativer schmähe und verachte er die drei politischen Extreme, die er in seinem Leben kennengelernt habe: Nazismus, Faschismus und Kommunismus: Alle drei sind pervertierte Abkömmlinge des Sozialismus. Alle drei sind brutale und grausame Glaubensbekenntnisse. Auch sonst haben sie viel gemeinsam; sie sind einer Political Correctness verpflichtet und der Bestrafung eines jeden, der von der vorgeschriebenen Lehre abweicht. So funktioniert auch die PC von heute. Somit sind alle diese vier politischen Orthodoxien dem Konservatismus diametral entgegengesetzt." Als Autor der Jungen Freiheit" schreibt Forsyth in einem Grußwort, der Vergleich sei keineswegs abwegig: Denn damit sie gedeihen können, muß allen dreien eine rigide, doktrinäre Orthodoxie vorausgehen, von der keiner abzuweichen wagt, aus Angst vor den Konsequenzen. Politischer Despotismus beginnt damit, Kritik - schließlich auch nur Widerspruch - unter Sanktion zu stellen." Er befürchte, dass die Political Correctness das Denken der Mehrheit in Deutschland eingenommen habe. Aus wikipedia-Frederick_Forsyth. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 680.