Martin Plaut, the BBC World Service's former Africa Editor, has published extensively on African affairs. An adviser to the Foreign Office and the US State Department he is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
'[Plaut] is well placed to tell Eritrea's modern story and does so
masterfully ... Throughout he condenses disparate material into
tight and accessible prose ... Plaut's valuable book has at least
ensured that, despite the regime's best efforts, this country is
not fully hidden from view.'
*Times Literary Supplement*
'Masterful account ... Plaut's extensive evidence shows how the
regime's repressive stance in power is a consequence of its
ruler.'
*Times Higher Education*
'An outstanding insider's analysis of the continent's most
noteworthy example of political repression . . . Understanding
Eritrea is a sobering, incisive analysis, replete with detail not
readily available elsewhere.'
'With my own eyes I witnessed the courage and sacrifice of the
women and men who fought the thirty-three year war that brought the
birth of an independent Eritrea and, they hoped, a future of
freedom. They have, however, been tragically betrayed by a brutal
dictatorship that inflicts relentless misery and forces thousands
to flee. Martin Plaut's brilliant and searing factual account of
the descent from hope to tyranny should be used to prosecute the
regime and expose the powers that ignore its enduring
atrocities.'
*Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, former Minister of
State for Africa and the United Nations*
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