The Devil Came on Horseback
Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur

Because of Who They Are A stirring account given by Brian Steidle, a former Marine who accepted a mission as military observer for the African Union in Darfur Sudan. The region sustains a heavy amount of conflict between the tribes and races in the area. Africa is a continent that has numerous peopl......more

"The Devil Came on Horseback" gets two stars for being a first-person account of genocide, told honestly and with the benefit of the military expertise that enabled its author to see through many of the egregious lies presented by the Sudanese government, organizer of Sudan's clandestine exterminati......more

I was really looking forward to reading this book so as to receive an honest accounting (and education) of the horrors of Darfur. I wanted to learn about the politics behind the genocide. The players. The purported solution. None of that was offered in this book. First, it was written as though the......more

I got a copy of this book because I did an interview with Brian Steidle, co-author, who served as an unarmed miliary observer in Darfur. Till that point, the name "Darfur" was not much more than a bumper sticker cause, though I knew the situation there was dire. Steidle, who co-wrote this book with......more

This book describes the genocide that was happening in Darfur. I give this book 3 stars for a coupe of reasons. The first reason would be that the author was very precise about the crisis in Dafur. The author told you the most important details in most of the situations. one bad thing about the book......more