The Mask of Anarchy Updated Edition: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War
“Outstanding. . . . A model of lucid writing, thorough research, and penetrating interpretation, this is one of the best books on Africa in recent years.”-Foreign Affairs,“No other available account of the civil war is as concise, accurate, or lucid.”-Christian Scholar's Review,“Cogently argued and supported by a wealth of observation”-Times Literary Supplement,“By far and away the best on the Liberian civil war. It is difficult to praise it too highly: lucid yet avoiding over-simplification, and entirely free of cant or ideological preconceptions, it is a model of its kind.”-The Sunday Telegraph,“Ellis has written a very honest and brave book about a ghastly human experience which has, one learns, much less to do with the primordial past than about the future.”-Ecclesiastical History,