The General’s Orderly: A fresh narrative of the Civil War

A date has been set for the launch of the book, The General’s Orderly, a personal account of the Nigeria-Biafran civil war from the perspective of the author’s personal experiences as a Private and later as an Orderly to the second-in-command of the Biafran Army.

The historic book, which throws fresh perspectives on the long held accounts of the Biafran war, is written by a University don, Professor Arua Okereke, a construction engineer and a professor of Construction Technology and Management.

The book, a catalogue of experiences from a child soldier, would be launched Friday, November 30, at the Imo State University Auditorium, Owerri.

The author uses the presciently written book, an autobiography, to explain what the war did to the psych of everyday men and women who participated, or were victims of the war.

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The book captures the remote and immediate causes of the war and its long term consequences on the people of Eastern Nigeria.

It also gave exciting accounts of the experience: the fight, the internal intrigues, the escapes, and the eventual surrender of the Biafran army to the Nigerian Army.

The 436-page autobiography with 17 chapters, also covers historic trajectory of the author from being an innocent boy fighting in a civil war he least understood, to his academic pursuits outside the country, his fantasy and childish romance with beautiful ladies in Cameroun and eventual inter-racial marriage in Bulgaria.