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Roméo Dallaire

    June 25, 1946

    This author delves into the profound themes of conflict, genocide, and human rights. Their writing draws from intense personal experiences on the front lines of international crises, witnessing firsthand the failures of humanity and the horrors of war. Through their work, they seek to foster understanding of the psychological toll of armed conflict and advocate for genocide prevention. Their literary approach is analytical yet deeply empathetic, championing global awareness and the protection of human rights.

    Roméo Dallaire
    Handschlag mit dem Teufel
    Handschlag mit dem Teufel
    Fortune Favours the Brave: Tales of Courage and Tenacity in Canadian Military History
    Shake Hands with the Devil
    They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
    Shake Hands with the Devil. The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
    • 2011

      In conflicts around the world, there is an increasingly popular weapon system that needs negligible technology, is simple to sustain, has unlimited versatility, and an incredible capacity for both loyalty and barbarism. What are these cheap, renewable, plentiful, sophisticated, and expendable weapons? Children. This important book is part of a passionate personal mission against the use of child soldiers, by the three-star general who commanded the UN mission in Rwanda. When Romeo Dallaire was tasked with achieving peace there in 1994, he and his force found themselves caught up in a vortex of civil war and genocide. He left Rwanda a broken man, disillusioned, suicidal, a story he told in the award-winning international sensation Shake Hands with the Devil. Now, in They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, Dallaire provides an emotionally daring and intellectually enlightening introduction to the child soldier phenomenon, as well as concrete solutions for its total eradication. Dallaire speaks up for those without a voice - children in conflicts around the globe who do not choose to fight, but who through ill-fate and the accident of birth find their way into soldiering. This is a book that addresses one of the most harrowing, urgent and important issues of our time.

      They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
    • 2009

      Many Canadians see the role their country's military plays in Afghanistan as an anomaly. However, this assumption is far from the truth. As U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has commented, "Canadians are fierce fighters." Fortune Favours the Brave certainly proves this point in a collection of essays that showcases the fighting spirit and courage of Canada's military.Daring actions featured in the book include the intrepid assault on the Fortress of Louisbourg and the cat-and-mouse struggle between Canadian partisans and Rogers's Rangers in the Seven Years' War in the 1750s; the seesaw battle for the Niagara frontier in the War of 1812; an innovative trench raid in the First World War; the valiant parachute assault to penetrate the Third Reich in the Second World War; the infamous battle at Kap'yong in the Korean War; covert submarine operations during the Cold War; the Medak Pocket clash in Croatia in the early 1990s; and Operation Medusa in Afghanistan.

      Fortune Favours the Brave: Tales of Courage and Tenacity in Canadian Military History
    • 2005

      A Canadian general and former United Nations peacekeeper shares his harrowing eyewitness account of the genocide in Rwanda, revealing how he and his men managed to rescue thousands of people despite the orgy of bloodletting that was erupting all around them. Reprint.

      Shake Hands with the Devil
    • 2004

      Thirteen months after Lt-Gen Romeo went to serve as force commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda in 1993, he flew home broken, disillusioned and suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans. This book takes us on a return voyage into the hell of Rwanda, recreating the events the international community turned its back on.

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