/lit/ - Literature

Shake Hands With The Devil

I've read a ton of books in my life, and that one is the one that shook me to my core. It's the autobiography of the force commander of the NATO troops stationed in Rwanda. He details the start of the Tutsi/Hutu genocide, his absolute powerlessness, the bickering and slowness of politicians, the stupid brutality everywhere, and the crushing of his soul.

There's a passage in which he has to meet some of the main guys behind the genocide and he describes how he stood there and contemplated for a few minutes to just shoot them right there, and how he struggled with himself to put down his gun. It's powerful.

This book is so bad-ass that, when I got it from the library, I automatically grew 400 chest hairs.

This book is so bad-ass that you can bend metal just by using that manly stare on the cover.

This book is also depressing as fuck