Bibliograph

The Biafra story, the making of an African legend, Frederick Forsyth

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The Biafra story, the making of an African legend, Frederick Forsyth

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eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Biafra story

Responsibility statement

Frederick Forsyth

Sub title

the making of an African legend

Summary

The Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s was one of the first occasions when Western consciences were awakened and deeply affronted by the level of the suffering and the scale of atrocity being played out in the African continent. This was thanks not just to advances in communication technology but to the courage and journalistic skills of correspondents such as Frederick Forsyth, who had already earned an enviable reputation for tenacity and accuracy working for Reuters and the BBC. In The Biafra Story, his first book, the Author took a strongly Biafran stance, revealing the depth of the Brit

Table Of Contents

The background -- The coup that failed -- The man called Ironside -- The second coup that failed -- Two colonels -- The autumn atrocities -- Aburi, Nigeria's last chance -- The character of Biafra -- Thirty months of fighting -- The role of the Wilson government -- Refugees, hunger and help -- The peace conferences -- The question of genocide -- The role of the press

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