Blog this item

Shake Hands with the Devil

The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

By RoméO Dallaire, Samantha Power

(16)

| Paperback | 9780786715107

Like Shake Hands with the Devil?
Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books!

Book Description

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 Roméo Dallaire was called on to serve as foContinue

Critics

Big Gamble in Rwanda

One morning last summer, while staying at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, Rwanda, I heard a great commotion below my first-floor window. I looked out, and saw a crowd of about one hundred distraught people pressing around a man who was dresse ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

Sorrows of a Hero

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda is the memoir of Roméo Dallaire, the United Nations force commander in Rwanda during the genocide of 1994. A Canadian lieutenant general, Dallaire and his tiny contingent of blue berets cr ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

2 Reviews

quite a tough reading, took me some months to be through. But learnt a lot and glad I have made it

Is this helpful?

Lizita said on May 14, 2010 | Add your feedback

In a way quite a good account but I later got rid of the book (now I regret that) because I thought it was very self-serving. The role of UN in this area was disgraceful and I do not think its senior military personnel can so easily divest themselves of responsibility.

Is this helpful?

PossMan said on Jun 6, 2007 | Add your feedback