 | The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir by Aminatta Forna
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderful account of life in Sierra Leone and the impact of Siaka Steven's APC government
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 | Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £0.01 Ancestor Stones (to be reviewed)
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 | Green Oranges on Lion Mountain: The Accidental Optimist by Emily Joy
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.98 Green Oranges on Lion Mountain (to be reviewed)
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 | The Bradt Travel Guide Sierra Leone (Bradt Travel Guide) by Katrina Manson
Buy new: £10.89 / Used from: £9.19 Personally endorsed by the President of Sierra Leone, former PM Tony Blair and myself, this book is a MUST for anyone interested in Sierra Leone.
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 | In Sierra Leone by Michael Jackson
Buy new: £12.72 / Used from: £7.00 In Sierra Leone (to be reviewed)
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 | Soldiers of Light by Daniel Bergner
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.87 The best book on the list. Intelligent, moving and thought-provoking insight into Sierra Leone. Essential reading for those who intend to live and work there.
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 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmal Beah
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £0.62 Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (to be reviewed)
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 | Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones by Greg Campbell
Buy new: £7.43 / Used from: £1.43 Blood Diamonds (to be reviewed)
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 | A Dirty War in West Africa: The R.U.F. and the Destruction of Sierra Leone by Lansana Gberie
Buy new: £12.02 / Used from: £9.35 I highly reccomend this alongside Conflict and Collusion as the starting point for those trying to understand Sierra Leone's civil war.
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 | Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone by David Keen
Buy new: £16.11 / Used from: £13.34 A great analysis of the war to be read with A Dirty War in West Africa
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 | The Internet for Dummies by John R. Levine
Buy used from: £0.30 Use the web to find suppliers of "Fighting for the Rainforest," A.Robertson (ISBN 9781410108). It's worth the effort if you've read Dirty and Conflict (see above) and are looking for more.
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 | Once a Pilgrim: The True Story of Man's Courage Under Rebel Fire by Will Scully
Buy used from: £0.01 Once A Pilgrim (to be reviewed)
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 | Operation Certain Death by Damien Lewis
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £0.01 Well informed guns and glory account of Operation Barras. If you liked Bravo Two Zero you'll love Operation Certain Death.
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 | Operation Barras: The SAS Rescue Mission Sierra Leone 2000 (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by William Fowler
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £0.01 Frustrating. Fowler's account is short , but neither concise nor original. It has very little on Operation Barras itself and not much else to commend it. Read Operation Certain Death.
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 | Unscathed: Escape from Sierra Leone by Philip Ashby
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 A personal account of escape and evasion from the RUF that I found hard to put down. Worth reading alongside Operation Certain Death or Once A Pilgrim.
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 | An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair by Tim Spicer
Buy used from: £3.80 Poorly edited and repetitive. Only worth reading if you're looking into the role that PMCs played in Sierra Leone's conflict.
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 | How De Body? by Teun Voeten
Buy new: £15.86 / Used from: £13.05 Ow De Body? (to be reviewed)
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 | The Reluctant Mercenary by Tim A. Smith
Buy new: £15.26 / Used from: £9.41 The Reluctant Mercenary (to be reviewed)
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 | Tears of the Sweet Peninsula: May 25, 1997 Coup and the Sierra Leone Civil Conflict by Gbanabom Hallowell
Buy new: £14.73 / Used from: £14.78 Articles published by the author after 1996. Of research interest only. Not for the general reader.
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 | Sierra Leonean Tragedy: History and Global Dimensions by John Peter Pham
Buy new: £67.44 / Used from: £101.63 Sierra Leonean Tragedy: History and Global Dimensions (to be reviewed)
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 | Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone (Historical Dictionaries of Africa) by C.Magbaily Fyle
Buy new: £44.95 / Used from: £13.96 Useful reference work with short descriptions of key people, places and events. But only worth the price tag for the very keen.
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 | A History of Sierra Leone (Modern Revivals in Philosophy) by Christopher Fyfe
Buy used from: £113.13 History of Sierra Leone, Fyfe (to be reviewed)
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 | The Underneath of Things: Violence, History and the Everyday in Sierra Leone by MC Ferme
Buy new: £19.90 / Used from: £12.90 A tragedy. Given the subject and the in-depth research this book could have been great. Instead it is so utterly impenetrable that it makes even first class anthropology graduates despair.
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 | Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century: History, Politics, and Society (Society and Politics in Africa, Vol. 8) by Earl Conteh-Morgan
Buy used from: £25.35 Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century (to be reviewed)
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 | Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War (Codesria Book Series)
Buy new: £19.95 / Used from: £24.46 Between Democracy and Terror (to be reviewed)
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