Reflections On The Nigerian Civil War PDF Download

This book is a captivating rendition of Dr. Egbe's personal and family experiences during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970). It is equally an audacious contribution to the historiography of the Nigerian Civil War, not to mention a crash program in military history. Here, his detailed rebuttal of Brigadier Alabi's claim that the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage was the first time elephants were used in battle, comes to mind.Dr. Egbe presents harrowing experiences and close calls with the annihilation of his family. For example, after Dr. Egbe's siblings and their mother were tied up to be executed by Nigerian soldiers in May 1969, they were saved because the battalion commander who had sent them to arrest the family was their dad's schoolboy, sixteen years earlier. Dr. Egbe concludes that the leaders of Nigeria and Biafra precipitated a war for their selfish reasons and sacrificed the lives of the masses who had no say in the genesis of the war or its outcome. The leaders on both sides learned little or no lessons from the tragedy of the civil war.