War of Visions: Conflicts of Identities in the Sudan

Rating:
Summary: One of the best books I have read, and I have read a few.
Review: Deng is as good a writer as he is a diplomat. He combines history with poetry, music, and folklore. The writing is clear, and Deng does not assume that his reader is already a scholar of the Horn of Africa. This epic -- almost 600-page -- book is as valuable for its prose as it is for its analysis of the civil war in the Sudan. I read this whole thing in less than a week.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best books I have read, and I have read a few.
Review: Deng is as good a writer as he is a diplomat. He combines history with poetry, music, and folklore. The writing is clear, and Deng does not assume that his reader is already a scholar of the Horn of Africa. This epic -- almost 600-page -- book is as valuable for its prose as it is for its analysis of the civil war in the Sudan. I read this whole thing in less than a week.