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From Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, an epic tale-part thriller, part tragedy-for our age, the political career and tragic death of the incomparable humanitarian Sergio Vieira de Mello If there is a single individual who can be said to have been at center stage through all of the... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Sérgio Vieira de Mello: (15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003) was a Brazilian UN diplomat who was killed in the Canal Hotel Bombing in Iraq along with 20 other members of his staff.
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At 8:45 a.m., on Tuesday, August 19, 2003, five months after the American-led invasion of Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello arrived by car at the headquarters of the United Nations in Baghdad.
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- Samantha Power (Author)
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- Dewey: 341.48092
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