First Raise a Flag is a moving reflection on the meaning of nationalism, the power of hope and the endurance of the human spirit. Under his seasoned foreign correspondents gaze, he weaves with passion and colour the lively history of the worlds newest country.
Peter Martell has spent over a decade reporting from palaces and battlefields, meeting those who made a country like no other: warlords and spies, missionaries and mercenaries, guerrillas and gunrunners, freedom fighters and war crime fugitives, Hollywood stars and ex-slaves. Three years after independence, South Sudan was lowest ranked in the list of failed states. First Raise a Flag details one of the most dramatic failures in the history of international state-building. This is the story of an epic fight for freedom. Many have fought, but South Sudan did the impossible, and won. It was an extraordinary, unprecedented experiment.
Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africas longest war, the continents biggest country split in two. When South Sudans war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronauts dream.
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