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Books : History : Countries & Regions : Africa : Northern : Sudan

• Emma's War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan

  Deborah Scroggins

  
  
   

• Darfur: A New History of a Long War (Second Edition): A Short History of a Long War: 1 (African Arguments)

  Julie Flint, Alex de Waal

  
  
   

• Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State

  SE Hutchinson

  
  
   

• A History of the Sudan: From the Coming of Islam to the Present Day

  P.M. Holt, M.W. Daly

  
  
   

• Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (Crises in World Politics)

  Gerard Prunier

  
  
   

• Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence: Religion, Discord and Division

  Jok Madut Jok

  
  
   

• The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars (African Issues)

  Douglas H. Johnson

  
  
   

• Civil Wars in Africa: Roots and Resolution

  Robert Matthews

  
  
   

• They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

  Alephonsian Deng, Benson Deng, Judy Bernstein, Benjamin Ajak

  
  
   

• The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon

  Fergus Nicoll

  
  
   

• The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur

  Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace

  
  
   

• Darfur: The Responsibility to Protect

  David Mepham

  
  
   

• Darfur: A Short History of a Long War (African Arguments)

  Julie Flint, Alexander De Waal

  
  
   

• The Horn of Africa: Politics and International Relations (International Library of African Studies)

  Peter Woodward

  
  
   

• Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide

  M. W. Daly

  
  
   

• Inside Sudan: Political Islam, Conflict, and Catastrophe

  Donald Petterson

  
  
   

• Surrender or Starve: Travels in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea (Vintage Departures)

  Robert D Kaplan

  
  
   

• A Good Dusting: Sudan Campaigns, 1881-89

  Henry Keown-Boyd

  
  
   

• The Blue Nile

  Alan Moorehead

  
  
   

• Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda

  Scott Peterson

  
  Somalia dominates more than half of this shocking account, and well it might, for without the fall-out from the American intervention, the genocide in another, Rwanda, may have been averted. It's a shuddering thought, and utterly condemnatory of American foreign policy in Africa, a point which Scott Peterson, newspaper correspondent and photographer, is at pains to narrate. The manner in which "God's Work" was executed was appalling. Defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory with a display of arrogance and incompetence beyond moral or political mandate, turning a mercy mission into an aggressive situation, peace-keeping into peace-enforcement. As a result of Bloody Monday in Mogadishu in 1993 (part of Operation Restore Hope), in which he nearly lost his life (four other Western journalists subsequently did, along with at least 54 Somalis), Peterson believes that US Admiral Jonathan Howe could, should, have been charged with war crimes. That he wasn't is at the heart of why the Americans will not sign up for an international criminal court.

  In the civil war of Sudan, Peterson found the most depressing malaise. More people had died (1.5m) in the Sudanese war than in Bosnia and Somalia combined, as the barren North fought the lush South, Arab arrayed against Christian, with famine snapping at their heels. Life is cheap, but food is dear, especially when aid unfailingly reaches only the mouths of the oppressors. The 1994 Rwandan massacre saw about half, maybe two thirds, of the number of casualties, but the rate of killing was five times greater than even the Nazis managed fifty years before. Extremist Hutus armed themselves with machetes and hacked their way, with Old Testament vengeance, through their Tutsi neighbours and moderate Hutus, while members of the UN Security Council fell over themselves to avoid terming it "genocide". Peterson's anger is palpable, and his eloquent, well-paced analysis, based on innumerable interviews as well as his own experiences, refuses to draw a veil over the horror. Meticulously researched, haunting, and urgent; if journalism is the first draft of history, then Scott Peterson's testimony makes a harrowing yet invaluable contribution. --David Vincent