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

Roméo Dallaire

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

War & MilitaryWar & Military · high confidenceWar & Military81 signalsLlm Classifier: War & Military -> War & MilitaryOpen Library: Canadian Personal narratives -> Memoir & AutobiographyOpen Library: Personal narratives, Canadian -> Memoir & AutobiographyGenocide, Atrocity & Political ViolenceIndigenous HistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Governor General's Literary Awards: English-language Non-fictionMajor2004WinnerSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Rwanda90%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    The account argues that, even amid the Rwanda genocide, rescues were possible through actions by the author and his men despite surrounding mass bloodshed.

    Model confidence 48%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.