# There Was a Country

**Author(s):** Chinua Achebe
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**Genres:** history, biography
**Pages:** 352
**Publisher:** Penguin Press
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780143124030
**ISBN-10:** 0141973676
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/there-was-a-country

## Description

Achebe's long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War of 1967-1970.

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**Themes:** Coming of Age, War