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Reporting from war zones around the globe, acclaimed journalist William Shawcross gives us an unforgettable portrait of a dangerous world and of the brave men and women, ordinary and extraordinary, who risk their lives to make and keep the peace. The end of the Cold War was followed by a... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Kofi Annan: Add a description of this character.
- Clinton
- Mladic
- Milosevic
- Saddam Hussein
- Yasushi Akashi
- Boutros-ghali
- Sihanouk
- Dallaire
- Arman
- Madeleine Albright
- Abacha
- Rupert Smith
- Richard Butler
- Abubakar
- Gaddafi
- Goulding
- Richard Holbrooke
- Kabbah
- Chirac
- Habibie
- Ranariddh
- Tony Blair
- Ahtisaari
- Kompong Thom
- Tariq Aziz
- Izetbegovic
- Karremans
- Talbott
- Mrs. Ogata
- Chernomyrdin
- Kabila
- Janvier
- Mobutu
- Radovan Karadzic
- Christopher
- Aideed
- Yeltsin
- Kompong Cham
- Vance
Setting & Locations edit
- Iraq
- Bosnia
- Cambodia
- United States
- Kosovo
- Rwanda
- Sarajevo
- Srebrenica
- Yugoslavia
- Somalia
- Washington
- Paris
- New York
- Baghdad
- Africa
- Nigeria
- Sierra Leone
- France
- Libya
- Zaire
- Dayton
- Belgrade
- Croatia
- Indonesia
- Britain
- Phnom Penh
- Russia
- Freetown
- Congo
- Serbia
- Mogadishu
- Europe
- China
- Angola
- Funcinpec
- East Timor
- Ethiopia
- Kigali
- Gulf
- Balkans
- Morocco
- Vietnam
- Zepa
- Burundi
- Germany
- Ghana
- Sudan
- Uganda
- Arusha
First Sentence edit
ON a dark afternoon in January 1999, with the wind chill factor down to minus ten and snow rushing around outside the thirty-eight floor of the United Nations headquarters in New York, the secretary general, Kofi Annan, could be forgiven for feeling beleaguered.
Authors & Contributors edit
- William Shawcross (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Country: England
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0747548447
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Country: England
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0747548447
Page Count: 400
Awards edit
- Samuel Johnson Prize (Finalist, 2000, Shortlist)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 327
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