I DIDNT DO IT FOR YOU book by Author: Michela Wrong

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I DIDNT DO IT FOR YOU book by Author: Michela Wrong

Praise for I Didn?t Do It For You: ?Contemporary history on the grand scale. I was entertained, informed and angered. Wrong has given us another essential contribution to the post-colonial scramble for Africa.? John le Carre ?Vivid, penetrating, wonderfully detailed. Michela Wrong has written the biography of a nation and more ? she has excavated the very heart and soul of the Eritrean people and their country.?

Aminatta Forna ?If you thought Eritrea was some exotic flower you heard mentioned on a gardening programme this book will tell you something different. It tells the tale of a small group of Africans so despised and trampled by successive foreign occupations that they fought back and after 30 years of war, they became a nation. It is an astounding story packed with tales of the worst ? and the best ? of human behaviour.? Richard Dowden, President of the Royal African Society ?This is a wonderful, readable and illuminating book.

Michela Wrong is an enormously talented writer!thoroughly researched and deeply engaging and honest.? Clare Short ? New Statesman ?Impressive ! Wrong offers an uplifting testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Eminently readable and full of fascinating detail, this is a book that deserves and needs to be read? Guardian ?[A] corker ! fascinating and tragic. Wrong?s writing flows so smoothly that it is only after 100 pages or so that you notice how much legwork she has put in [and] she tracks down a startling array of characters? Daily Telegraph ?A lyrical, intensely intelligent and wonderfully readable history of Eritrea ! beautifully written? Independent

Author: Michela Wrong