Written in Blood - 3rd Edition by Robert Debs Heinl & Nancy Gordon Heinl (Paperback)

About the Book

This newly revised edition of Written in Blood, expanded by Michael Heinl, includes new research and an updated version of the 1996 edition's orthography of Creole. Written in Blood remains the most complete history of Haiti ever written in English and one of the most complete in any language.

Book Synopsis

This newly revised edition of Written in Blood, expanded by Michael Heinl, includes new research and an updated version of the 1996 edition's orthography of Creole. Written in Blood remains the most complete history of Haiti ever written in English and one of the most complete in any language.

Review Quotes

There is no work in the English language that even approaches the extravagant wealth of information the Heinls have assembled about the world's first black republic.

As spellbinding as Voodoo, 'Written in Blood' is a matchless history of Haiti and the Haitian people.

The turbulent history of Haiti is related in a well-researched and highly readable narrative...Praised by all who have read it as the only complete and fully documented history of Haiti in any language, 'Written in Blood' is certain to become a classic.

The Heinls tell [this] tragic story well.

There is no work in the English language that even approaches the extravagant wealth of information the Heinls have assembled about the world's first black republic.

About the Author

Robert Debs Heinl, deceased, and Nancy Gordon Heinl, both writers and historians, lived in Haiti from 1959 to 1963. Robert Heinl was Chief of the U.S. Naval Mission to Haiti until he was declared persona non grata by François Duvalier. He retired from the Marine Corps in 1964 and wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column until his death in 1979. Nancy Gordon Heinl was an independent writer and journalist who wrote extensively on black history and voodoo. Born in London, she came to the United States in 1933. She died in 1997. Michael Heinl received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an international business consultant in Washington, D.C.