Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda [Signed 1st Printing]
Dallaire, LGen. Romeo with Major Brent Beardsley
Langue : anglais
Edité par Random House of Canada, Toronto, 2003
- Éd. originale
- Signé
- Livre relié
- Occasion
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1st printing of the first Canadian hardcover edition SIGNED by Dallaire plus his rank on the title page with a black fountain pen. Full black cloth with white end papers and silver titles. A tight copy with no markings by a previous owner or retailer. Two spots of ink from the signature have been transferred to the opposing page. The top and bottom corners of the back board are rubbed. The crown of the book's spine has softened. The jacket is bright, crisp and price intact. The crown of the spine has softened as have three of the four tips of the folds. There is a patch of barely discernible scratches in the surface of the back panel. Dallaire served as force commander of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda. He won the Governor General's Award for Shake Hands with the Devil, and the book has proven to have an enduring appeal for readers and collectors. Overseas buyer will be asked to pay the actual cost of postage due to the weight of the book.
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- Titre
- Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda [Signed 1st Printing]
- Auteur
- Dallaire, LGen. Romeo with Major Brent Beardsley
- Éditeur
- Random House of Canada, Toronto
- Année de publication
- 2003
- État de l'article
- Near Fine
- Jaquette
- Near Fine
- Signé
- Signed by Author(s)
- Reliure
- Hardcover
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 0679311718
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9780679311713
- Édition
- 1st Edition
- Impression
- 1st Printing
- Catalogues du vendeur
- First Books Autographed, Governor General's Award Winners Autographed, Non-Fiction Autographed
When Lt-Gen. Roméo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda in 1993, he thought he was heading off on a modest and straightforward peacekeeping mission. Thirteen months later he flew home from Africa, broken, disillusioned and suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans in only a hundred days. In Shake Hands with the Devil, he takes the reader with him on a return voyage into the hell of Rwanda, vividly recreating the events the international community turned its back on. This book is an unsparing eyewitness account of the failure by humanity to stop the genocide, despite timely warnings.
Woven through the story of this disastrous mission is Dallaire’s own journey from confident Cold Warrior, to devastated UN commander, to retired general engaged in a painful struggle to find a measure of peace, reconciliation and hope. This book is General Dallaire’s personal account of his conversion from a man certain of his worth and secure in his assumptions to a man conscious of his own weaknesses and failures and critical of the institutions he’d relied on. It might not sit easily with standard ideas of military leadership, but understanding what happened to General Dallaire and his mission to Rwanda is crucial to understanding the moral minefields our peacekeepers are forced to negotiate when we ask them to step into the world’s dirty wars.
Excerpt from Shake Hands with the Devil
My story is not a strictly military account nor a clinical, academic study of the breakdown of Rwanda. It is not a simplistic indictment of the many failures of the UN as a force for peace in the world. It is not a story of heroes and villains, although such a work could easily be written. This book is a cri de coeur for the slaughtered thousands, a tribute to the souls hacked apart by machetes because of their supposed difference from those who sought to hang on to power. . . . This book is the account of a few humans who were entrusted with the role of helping others taste the fruits of peace. Instead, we watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect.
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