Description
| Product ID: | 9781848138476 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Charles Taylor and Liberia |
| Subtitle: | Ambition and Atrocity in Africa's Lone Star State |
| Authors: | Author: Colin M. Waugh |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | African history, African history, History, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups and movements, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Liberia, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), c 2000 to c 2010 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book looks at the efforts of the West and the international community to bring to justice one of those whom it deems to be most to blame for the turmoil. Campaigner, insurgent, fugitive, rebel commander, commodity kingpin, elected president, exile and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to lead his country to change but instead ignited a conflict which destroyed Liberia in over a decade of violence, greed and personal ambition. Taylor''s takeover threw much of the neigbouring region into turmoil, until he was finally brought to face justice in The Hague for his role in Sierra Leone''s civil war.In this remarkable and eye-opening book, Colin Waugh draws on a variety of sources, testimonies and original interviews - including with Taylor himself - to recount the story of what really happened during these turbulent years. In doing so, he examines both the life of Charles Taylor, as well as the often self-interested efforts of the international community to first save Liberia from disaster, then, having failed to do so, to bring to justice the man it deems most to blame for its disintegration. |
| Imprint Name: | Zed Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-10-13 |
