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"A fascinating and gripping memoir." --The Wall Street Journal
"There Was a Country ought to be essential reading...an eclectic range of insights and fascinating anecdotes."--Financial Times
"Achebe writes in a characteristically modest fashion...Like much of Achebe's other work, this book about the progress of war and the presence of violence has a universal quality. In a world where sectarian hatreds augmented by political mediocrity have fractured Syria and threaten to bring Israel and Iran to blows, There Was a Country is a valuable account of how the suffering caused by war is both unnecessary and formative."--Newsweek
"Memoir and history are brought together by a master storyteller."
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