Shake Hands With The Devil The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

Dallaire, Romeo

ISBN 10: 0679311718 / ISBN 13: 9780679311713

Published by Random House Canada, Toronto, 2003

About this Item

Signed "To Norman All the best Dallaire L gen 18 nov 03" on the title page. An unread tight copy with square corners. Long lateral bump on bottom corner of front board; otherwise fine. Jacket has minor edge wear, and pen indents, noticeable in reflected light. First printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shake Hands With The Devil The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
• Publisher: Random House Canada, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679311718
• ISBN 13: 9780679311713
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda was written with a view to leaving a document for the General's children for them to try and understand why the father they saw leave for a UN mission in 1993 and the soldier who returned in August, 1994 was not the same father. As the book developed it became a personal record of the genocide of over 800,000 souls (both Tutsi and Hutu) and was dedicated to the Rwandans, abandoned to their fate, who were slaughtered in the hundreds of thousands, to the fourteen UN soldiers under his command who died bravely in the service of peace and humanity and to his researcher, who died while working so hard to tell the story.

About the Author

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. 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.