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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786995452 | ISBN 10: 178699545x
Linda Melvern’s classic, investigative account of the Rwandan genocide, now with a new Introduction. Events in Rwanda in 1994 mark a landmark in the history of modern genocide. Up to one million people were killed in a planned public and p ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090508 | ISBN 10: 1786090503
When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear. ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552775335 | ISBN 10: 0552775339
Into the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead. 6 April 1994: In the skies above Rwanda the president’s plane is shot down in flames. Near Kigali, Jean-Pierre holds his family close, fearing for their lives as the violence esca ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780224091770 | ISBN 10: 0224091778
** Winner of the British Sports Book Awards 2014 New Writer of the Year ** Where there is hope there can be redemption. Meet Adrien Niyonshuti, a member of the Rwandan cycling team. Adrien was seven years old when he lost his family ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086573 | ISBN 10: 1844086577
Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. Then in 1994 she was caught up in the horrific conflict, and escaped only after being left for dead u ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781583229170 | ISBN 10: 1583229175
In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group working to end the Iraq War, Walker traveled to Palesti ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781851687435 | ISBN 10: 1851687432
The efficiency of the Hutu killers in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 exceeded that even of the Nazi Holocaust. It happened in front of the world’s eyes, every moment broadcast on television – but nothing was done. Among the 800,000 Tutsis kill ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781842706732 | ISBN 10: 184270673x
Based on the true story of Jeanne, an 8-year-old girl who survived the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the only member of her family who did. Here her adoptive mother Hanna Jansen retells her story with a clarity and honesty that is at once moving and insp ... more
View book details£22.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844675425 | ISBN 10: 1844675424
Conspiracy to Murder is a gripping account of the most appaling event of the late 20th century: The Rwandan genocide of 1994. Linda Melvern's damning indictment of almost all the key figures and institutions involved only serves to sharpen the horror ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843541394 | ISBN 10: 1843541394
A spellbinding account of the journey that transformed Clea Koff from an idealistic student into a seasoned war crimes investigator. Clea Koff was a young graduate student in 1996 when she was sent to Rwanda by the UN to work with a small team e ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099478935 | ISBN 10: 0099478935
When Lt. General Romeo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN mission to Rwanda, he thought he was heading off to Africa to help two warring parties acheive a peace both sides wanted. Instead he and his small international ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780747558156 | ISBN 10: 0747558159
From her unique vantage point as a reporter directly covering the reality and aftermath of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, award-winning journalist Elizabeth Neuffer tells the compelling story of two parallel journeys toward justice in each country - ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780140247602 | ISBN 10: 0140247602
When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. Fergal Keane travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing, and his powerful analys ... more
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