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In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa

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In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa - Bergner, Daniel
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An "Los Angeles Times Best Book 2003 In Sierra Leone, rampaging soldiers have made a custom of hacking off the hands of their victims, then letting them live as the ultimate emblem of terror. The country is so desperate that, forty years after independence, its people long to be recolonized. In this book, the acclaimed author of novelist and journalist" follows a set of Western would-be saviors and a set of Sierra Leoneans, who take us into a land of beauty, horror, resilience and redemption. From mercenaries to ...

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In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa 2004, St. Martins Press-3PL, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312422929

Trade paperback

In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa 2003, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780374266530

Hardcover