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Romeo Dallaire - Shake Hands With The Devil, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

Shake Hands With The Devil

The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Av Romeo Dallaire

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD'Indisputably the best account of the whole terrible Rwandan genocide.' R. W. Johnson, Sunday Times'Angry, accusatory and extremely moving.' Caroline Moorhead, SpectatorWhen Lieutenant General Roméo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN mission to Rwanda, he thought he was heading off to Africa to help two warring parties achieve a peace both sides wanted. Instead, he and members of his small international force were caught up in a vortex of civil war and genocide. Dallaire left Rwanda a broken man; disillusioned, suicidal, and determined to tell his story.An award-winning international sensation, Shake Hands with the Devil is a landmark contribution to the literature of war: a remarkable tale of a soldier's courage and an unforgettable portrait of modern warfare. It is also a stinging indictment of the petty bureaucrats who refused to give Dallaire the men and the operational freedom he needed to stop the killing. 'I know there is a God,' Dallaire writes, 'because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.''Read Roméo Dallaire's profoundly sad and moving book.' Madeleine Albright, Washington Post
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2005-02-03
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 39 mm
  • Vikt: 414 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 592
  • Förlag: Cornerstone
  • ISBN: 9780099478935
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Roméo 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. In 1993 he was sent to Rwanda on a UN peace-helping mission; he was soon struggling to prevent one of modern history's most shocking events and the UN's famous failed mission: the genocide in Rwanda. General Dallaire was medically released from the armed forces in April 2000 due to posttraumatic 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. The Rwandan genocide is one of the most shocking examples of political exploitation and ethnic cleansing in living memory. It has been immortalised in the films Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs, and here in the words of a seasoned soldier.

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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.

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2 recensioner, genomsnitt 5/5

  1. 5/5 Woodi S

    This book was incredible but felt like a marathon. I have read many books about this subject matter and could not resist wanting to read the book written by the person in charge of a peacekeeping mission in the middle of a genocide. Dallaire is meticulous in documenting events. This book read more like a military report but his insight and experience are indescribable. If you are trying to understand how these atrocities unfolded, you have to read this.

  2. 5/5 Sara B