As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed firsthand Somalia's
descent into war and its battle against US troops, the spiritual
degeneration of Sudan's Holy War, and one of the most horrific events of
the last half century: the genocide in Rwanda. In Me Against My Brother,
he brings these events together for the first time to record a collapse
that has had an impact far beyond African borders.In Somalia, Peterson
tells of harrowing experiences of clan conflict, guns and starvation. He
met with warlords, observed death intimately and nearly lost his own
life to a Somali mob. From ground level, he documents how the US-UN
relief mission devolved into all out war - one that for America has
proven to be the most formative post-Cold War debacle. In Sudan, he
journeys where few correspondents have ever been, on both sides of that
religious front line, to find that outside "relief" has only prolonged
war. In Rwanda, his first-person experience of the genocide and
well-documented analysis provide rare insight into this human
tragedy.Filled with the dust, sweat and powerful detail of real-life, Me
Against My Brother graphically illustrates how preventive action and a
better understanding of Africa - especially by the US - could have
averted much suffering. Also includes a 16-page color insert.
