Romeo Dallaire

Shake Hands with the Devil

The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

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Produktbeschreibung

The number one international bestseller chosen as Nonfiction Book of the Year and winner of the Shaughnessy-Cohen prize; for political writing. A harrowing and ultimately redemptive war memoir by the General who commanded the UN forces in Rwanda, Dallaire's book is an invaluable contribution to the perennially popular genre of war literature.

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Thirteen months after Lt-Gen Romeo went to serve as force commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda in 1993, he flew home broken, disillusioned and suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans. This book takes us on a return voyage into the hell of Rwanda, recreating the events the international community turned its back on.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arrow Books / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 544995
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780099478935
• ISBN-10: 0099478935
• Artikelnr.: 21003939

Autorenporträt

Romeo Dallaire joined the Canadian Army in 1964. A three star General, he served as Deputy Commander of the Canadian Army and later in the Ministry of Defence. General Dallaire was medically released from the armed forces in April 2000 due to post-traumatic stress disorder and is now special adviser to the Canadian government on war-affected children and the prohibition of small arms distribution. In January 2002, he received the inaugural Aegis Award for Genocide Prevention in London.

Rezensionen

Shake Hands With The Devil is one of the saddest books I have ever read and one of the most heart-breaking eye-witness accounts.A kind of naive and painfully honest confession of the failure of an organisation, a meticulous description of one of the worst betrayals in the history of humanity. Guardian