Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda - Hardcover

Dallaire, Romo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786714875 ISBN 13: 9780786714872

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 2005

Synopsis

For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect." When Romeo Dallaire was called on to serve as force commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, he believed that his assignment was to help two warring parties achieve the peace they both wanted. Instead, he was exposed to the most barbarous and chaotic display of civil war and genocide in the past decade, observing in just one hundred days the killings of more than eight hundred thousand Rwandans. With only a few troops, his own ingenuity and courage to direct his efforts, Dallaire rescued thousands, but his call for more support from the world body fell on deaf ears. In Shake Hands with the Devil, General Dallaire recreates the awful history the world community chose to ignore. He also chronicles his own progression from confident Cold Warrior to devastated UN commander, and finally to retired general struggling painfully, and publicly, to overcome posttraumatic stress disorder--the highest-ranking officer ever to share such experiences with readers.

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Review:

"[Shake Hands with the Devil] is an affidavit for an indictment--an indictment of the murderers, the hamstrung, bureaucratized UN, and the self-absorbed developed world.... Romeo Dallaire emerges as our post-Cold War hero."

Book Description:

The award-winning war memoir by the general who commanded the UN forces during the Rwandan Genocide

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786714875
• ISBN 13: 9780786714872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 584