All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity)
Scheffer provides an almost dizzying amount of information about how even the best-intentioned efforts to confront human rights atrocities on his watch fell repeatedly short. Because we follow him through grinding days, a sense of tunnel vision can set in. However, he writes clearly and at times grippingly, with especially strong accounts of the horrors wrought in Rwanda and Sierra Leone. —Marguerite Feitlowitz