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

Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire with Major Brent Beardsley

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 achieve a peace both sides wanted. Instead, he and members of his small international force were caught up in a vortex of civil w...

Inferno: Popular Penguins

Dante Alighieri

Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan...

Chasing the Sea : Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia

Tom Bissell

In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet irrigation p...

The Eagle in the Mirror

Jesse Fink

Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the astonishing untold story of an Australian-born intelligence officer accused by some espionage experts of being the traitor of the century- Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest serving...