This book really woke me up to the terrible state of awareness and action towards genocide in recent history. Although it focuses on America, it is an important message for all nations to do more, and for people in general to raise up their voice rather than relying on the government to take the first steps.

I for one hadn’t realised that the word genocide didn’t even exist until after the second world war; Raphael Lemkin should be an international hero – I didn’t know his name until reading this book.