A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

by William Finnegan

Book Overview

Powerful, instructive, and full of humanity, this book challenges the current understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique--a naturally rich country--into the world's poorest nation. Before going to Mozambique, William Finnegan saw the war, like so many foreign observers, through a South African lens, viewing the conflict as apartheid's "forward defense." This lens was shattered by what he witnessed and what he heard from Mozambicans, especially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520082664
• ISBN13: 9780520082663
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.6"