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	HOME ABOUT US CONTACT US PRESS ROOM USEFUL LINKS	Cold Run Books presents... "When war ravaged the northern town of Fadugu, causing it to be abandoned and resettled multiple times over the years, many inhabitants reached out through letters to American and European friends....Stewart and Amman have skillfully integrated excerpts from letters they received with an historical narrative of the war." African Studies Review (read more...) "Clearly and concisely written... Recommended." Choice (read more...)	Paperback 5.5" x 8.5", 224 pages; Includes map and 12 photos; notes, sources, and index. Price: $14.95; Distributed to the trade by AtlasBooks, 1-800-266-5564	NEWS Now available in the UK. Black Man's Grave is now available in the UK through the kingdom's leading distributor, Gazelle Book Services. For information or to place an order phone +44(0)152468765 or visit www.gazellebooks.co.uk. Cold Run authors Gary Stewart and John Amman appear on PRI's Afropop Worldwide on or about May 15. This special Hip Deep edition features some of the music that is helping to bring war-torn Sierra Leone back together. To find the exact date and time on the NPR/PRI station in your area, to listen online, or to get additional information on Sierra Leone music, including pictures and interviews, go to afropop.org. Authors Stewart and Amman appeared on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show along with Umaru Mansaray, one of their correspondents from Sierra Leone. To listen, CLICK HERE Cold Run Books has pledged that half of the profits from the sale of Black Man's Grave: Letters From Sierra Leone will be donated to projects benefiting the people of Fadugu. In addition you may help by contributing to Sierra Leone Village Partnerships. For more information visit slvp.org.
	Meet the greedy politicians who hijacked a fledgling democracy, the rebels who brought them down, and the villagers who struggled to survive the country’s chaotic descent. Black Man’s Grave tells what happened to place children-turned-soldiers in jeopardy and why Sierra Leone’s diamonds acquired their bloody tinge. Black Man’s Grave, the first book to seriously examine the causes and conduct of Sierra Leone’s horrific decade of civil war, portrays the small, northern village of Fadugu as its way of life collapses. Based on years of correspondence between villagers and the book’s authors, both former Peace Corps volunteers in Fadugu, Black Man’s Grave views the Revolutionary United Front through the eyes of those who bore the brunt of its attacks. The cast includes Sierra Leone’s “big man,” Siaka Stevens; RUF leader Foday Sankoh, whose grandfatherly demeanor belied the viciousness with which he sought to impose his “revolution”; and one who aspired to the big man role, Charles Taylor from next-door Liberia. Taylor’s support for Sierra Leone’s rebel war expanded from initial hostility toward Stevens’s handpicked successor into a commercial venture that supplied arms in exchange for diamonds. In an offshoot of that unsavory trade, links between Sierra Leone’s diamonds and al Qaeda have been traced. The revelations of Black Man’s Grave help us understand the frustrations that simmer throughout much of the third world and threaten a peaceful future for all.

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"When war ravaged the northern town of Fadugu, causing it to be abandoned and resettled multiple times over the years, many inhabitants reached out through letters to American and European friends....Stewart and Amman have skillfully integrated excerpts from letters they received with an historical narrative of the war." African Studies Review (read more...)

"Clearly and concisely written... Recommended." Choice (read more...)

Paperback 5.5" x 8.5", 224 pages;
Includes map and 12 photos; notes, sources, and index. Price: $14.95; Distributed to the trade by AtlasBooks,
1-800-266-5564

NEWS

Now available in the UK. Black Man's Grave is now available in the UK through the kingdom's leading distributor, Gazelle Book Services. For information or to place an order phone +44(0)152468765 or visit www.gazellebooks.co.uk.

Cold Run authors Gary Stewart and John Amman appear on PRI's Afropop Worldwide on or about May 15. This special Hip Deep edition features some of the music that is helping to bring war-torn Sierra Leone back together. To find the exact date and time on the NPR/PRI station in your area, to listen online, or to get additional information on Sierra Leone music, including pictures and interviews, go to afropop.org.

Authors Stewart and Amman appeared on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show along with Umaru Mansaray, one of their correspondents from Sierra Leone. To listen, CLICK HERE

Cold Run Books has pledged that half of the profits from the sale of Black Man's Grave: Letters From Sierra Leone will be donated to projects benefiting the people of Fadugu. In addition you may help by contributing to Sierra Leone Village Partnerships. For more information visit slvp.org.

Meet the greedy politicians who hijacked a fledgling democracy, the rebels who brought them down, and the villagers who struggled to survive the country’s chaotic descent. Black Man’s Grave tells what happened to place children-turned-soldiers in jeopardy and why Sierra Leone’s diamonds acquired their bloody tinge.

Black Man’s Grave, the first book to seriously examine the causes and conduct of Sierra Leone’s horrific decade of civil war, portrays the small, northern village of Fadugu as its way of life collapses. Based on years of correspondence between villagers and the book’s authors, both former Peace Corps volunteers in Fadugu, Black Man’s Grave views the Revolutionary United Front through the eyes of those who bore the brunt of its attacks.

The cast includes Sierra Leone’s “big man,” Siaka Stevens; RUF leader Foday Sankoh, whose grandfatherly demeanor belied the viciousness with which he sought to impose his “revolution”; and one who aspired to the big man role, Charles Taylor from next-door Liberia. Taylor’s support for Sierra Leone’s rebel war expanded from initial hostility toward Stevens’s handpicked successor into a commercial venture that supplied arms in exchange for diamonds. In an offshoot of that unsavory trade, links between Sierra Leone’s diamonds and al Qaeda have been traced. The revelations of Black Man’s Grave help us understand the frustrations that simmer throughout much of the third world and threaten a peaceful future for all.

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