A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy
This book illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for America's ongoing war on terrorism. Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, it examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s.
A darkly brilliant, wide-angled vision of our chaotic, globalised world, where present crises resonate with past tyrannies—from a bestselling geopolitical expert.