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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

By: Philip Gourevitch
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With an introduction by Rory Stewart.

Winner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account of one of the defining outrages of modern history.

All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. A year later, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews.

Hailed by the Guardian as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of all time, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is a firsthand account one of the defining outrages of modern history, an unforgettable anatomy of Rwanda's decimation. As riveting as it is moving, it is a profound reckoning with humanity's betrayal and its perseverance.

1999, Guardian First Book Award, Winner

©2019 Philip Gourevitch (P)2019 Copyright: Macmillan Audio (US) 20th Century Africa Military War

Critic Reviews

I know few books, fiction or non-fiction, as compelling as Philip Gourevitch's account of the Rwandan genocide (Sebastian Junger, author of THE PERFECT STORM)
Like the greatest war reporters, Philip Gourevitch raises the human banner in hell's mouth . . . This volume establishes him as the peer of Michael Herr, there is no limit to what we may expect from him (Robert Stone)
A sparkling jewel that shone no matter what angle you looked at it from (Amanda Foreman)

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Very good book

Comprehensively researched, expertly written and c loos chilling content. A must buy for anyone interested in the tragic, and catastrophic history of man’s inhumanity to man. A real life parable that shows that the horror of genocide can, and does happen in the modern world and the innocuous ingredients that sparks the deadly social fuse.

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