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Simon & Schuster, January 2002
eBook, 448 pages
ISBN-10: 0743225775
ISBN-13: 9780743225779
Description
The Cold War has been followed by a decade of regional and ethnic conflicts, massacres, and forced exiles. Should America assume the role of peacekeeper and chief humanitarian in a world of endless wars and human disasters? Eminent foreign correspondent William Shawcross has spent much of his career in war zones and has had unrivaled access to diplomats, peacekeepers, and global policymakers at the highest levels, including UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, for whom he has high regard. In Deliver Us from Evil, which has a new epilogue for the paperback edition, Shawcross takes us behind the lines with him to Cambodia, Bosnia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Rwanda, and Kosovo to show us how complex and costly Western interventions are and how naïve are our hopes of peacemaking without bloodshed.
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Table of ContentsJohn Keegan
author of The First World War and The Face of Battle
Deliver Us from Evil is eloquent and heartrending. In the last two decades, unorganized armies, often not under state control, have done as much harm as national armies. William Shawcross's horrifying account of modern genocide and his dramatic stories of the brave men and women who attempt to make and keep the peace is a powerful call to action which must be heeded.
Michael Beschloss
author of At the Highest Levels and The Crisis Years
At a moment when Americans are debating when and where we should intervene, a world-class journalist and scholar brings us an important and groundbreaking book on the fresh traumas of the post
-- Cold War world and those who are struggling against them. I turned the last page feeling both horrified and hopeful.
Joseph NyeThe Boston GlobeWell written and filled with troubling truths.
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