BOOK REVIEW
Title: Ironsi: Nigeria, The Army, Power And Politics
Author: Chuks Iloegbunam
Year Of Publication: 2019
Publishers: Eminent Biographies,
Awka, Anambra State
Pagination: 300
Reviewer: DAN AMOR
"Life is terribly deficient in form.
Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way.
There is a grotesque horror about its comedies.
And its tragedies seem to culminate in farce."
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).
How do we begin a critical review
of a book on a personality such as Major-General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe
Aguiyi-Ironsi? Many writers have been devoted to investigations of great events
and great leaders. Few have combined that devotion with the ability to write
effectively, amusingly, even brilliantly about those events and people – about
the great moments and the low moments, the great men and women and those who
were only interesting, entertaining or absurd. Chuks Iloegbunam combines
devotion to investigations with ability, as all who read this book will
testify.
