SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL

Vintage, Toronto, 2004, 10^th pr.  ISBN 0-679-31172-6.  Trade soft cover, 562 pages including Glossary, Recommended Reading, and Index.  Light edge and cover wear, binding sound.  Light creases on blurb page; inscribed, signed and dated by author on title page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked; pages lightly tanned.  Winner of the 2004 Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing, and the 2004 Governor General’s Award for non-fiction.  ‘Serving in Rwanda in 1993 as a UN Force Commander, Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire and his small UN peacekeeping force found themselves abandoned by the world’s major powers in a vortex of civil war and genocide.  With meagre resources to stem the killing, General Dallaire was witness to the murder of 800,000 Rwandans in a hundred days, and returned home broken, disillusioned and suicidal.’ (from rear wrap)