num_pages: 404
description: The Cold War has been followed by a decade of regional and ethnic conflicts, massacres, and forced exiles. Should America assume the role of peacekeeper and chief humanitarian in a world of endless wars and human disasters? Eminent foreign correspondent William Shawcross has spent much of his career in war zones and has had unrivaled access to diplomats, peacekeepers, and global policymakers at the highest levels, including UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, for whom he has high regard. In Deliver Us from Evil, which has a new epilogue for the paperback edition, Shawcross takes us behind the lines with him to Cambodia, Bosnia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Rwanda, and Kosovo to show us how complex and costly Western interventions are and how naïve are our hopes of peacemaking without bloodshed.
language: English
title: Deliver Us from Evil
titlecomplete: Deliver Us from Evil
genres: Nonfiction, Military Fiction, War, Politics, History
ratings_count: 152
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
publisher: Bloomsbury (London)