Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski,William Brand
'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions.
As well as being a rare military historian who can also write gracefully, John Keegan has a distinguished capacity for peering behind the conventional view of events.
—— Alistair Horne , Sunday TimesFascinating. An intricate, gracefully told and often moving social history of a talented family in times of revolution, civil war, dictatorship and world conflict
—— Rachel Polonsky , New StatesmanA fascinating spy story, a delicious entertainment, a compelling investigation
—— Simon Sebag-Montefiore , Evening StandardAn extraordinary drama of exile and espionage
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentBeevor uses the story to evoke a world - the vague ideological borderlands of Nazism and Communism
—— Felipe Fernández-Armesto , The TimesNo previous biographer has examined Hitler's devilishness in Kershaw's detail ... his book is so comprehensive, so richly documented and so judicious that it will not soon be superseded
—— Daniel Johnson , Daily TelegraphA riveting narrative ... the text positively crackles with fascinating insights and interesting perceptions ... this is unquestionably an outstanding biography
—— Frank McLynn , Herald
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