PIRATE STATE
Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea
Author: Eichstaedt, Peter

Review Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher:Lawrence Hill Books/Chicago Review
Pages: 224
Price ( Hardback ): $24.95
Publication Date: October 1, 2010
ISBN ( Hardback ): 978-1-56976-311-7
Category: Nonfiction

Veteran journalist Eichstaedt (First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, 2009, etc.) explores the murky waters of Somali piracy.

In the seas around the Horn of Africa, which form the coast of troubled and ...

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