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

Dallaire commanded the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda and watched the genocide from inside it, begging for permission to act and being denied. His account is not a polished diplomatic memoir but a wound still open — the fax to New York predicting what was coming, the silence in reply, the eight hundred thousand dead. He suffered a complete breakdown afterward. The book explains why and does not ask for absolution.