本书讲述了作者1951年入朝参战被俘，至2010年走访幸存战俘难友，这六十年间的个人经历，和6000余名志愿军战俘归来人员的生活故事。作者在2000年版基础上，修订了1/3篇幅的文字，补充了不少前所未有的史实细节，尤其独家使用美国国家档案馆、麦克阿瑟将军纪念档案馆收藏的朝鲜战争彩色战地照片，从人性的角度，重新审视六十年血与火、泪与恨、爱和痛、个人命运和民族命运交织的历史，从战俘群体这个特殊视角，解读朝鲜战争及其对个人命运的深远影响。
这是一本很好的纪实文学作品，又是一本全世界人士都会关心的书、一本人类文化学要研究的书、一本有巨大悲剧力量的爱国主义好教材。该书与作者最新创作、即将出版的《孤岛——14000名志愿军战俘在台湾》相互补充。
朝鲜战争虽是一场局部战争，并已过去60年，但它在中国人的记忆里，在全世界范围内，一直是个说不透、道不尽的重大历史话题。亲历者已逐渐老去，许多历史真相却尚未揭开。本书作者是志愿军第60军180师538团团政治处宣教干事，亲历朝鲜战争最惨烈的第五次战役并受伤被俘、坚决回国，他经过了战俘营里更为残酷的窝里斗，遭遇了历次政治斗争的歧视和折磨，却坚定顽强地自我振作、不断奋起，直到80岁高龄仍然在为6000名归国难友上诉鸣冤、落实政策。这本书就是一个朝鲜战争的亲历者，以自己的亲身经历，揭开的一段尘封已久的历史真相。
残酷的战场见闻，不幸的战俘生活，痛苦的政治遭遇，沉痛的社会反省，反思中国传统的战争观念和战俘观念，具有令人深思的历史文化内蕴。从人性的角度，重新审视朝鲜战争和我们国家60年建设血与火、泪与恨、爱与痛、个人命运与民族命运交织的历史，从一个战俘群体的视角，解读朝鲜战争及其对个人命运的深远影响。
文风朴素，细节真实，图片珍贵，又加上原始档案、其他历史著作的参照，经过六十年时光打磨，二十多年的反复修订，是一本独一无二，让人一气读到底、读后掩卷长思的大书。
1.这是一本经典的纪实文学作品，曾荣获“北京市建国40 周年优秀报告文学作品奖”；
2.这是一本让全世界人士关注的书，被约翰?托兰写入《美国人眼中的朝鲜战争》，激起中、美两国两名作家间一场著作权官司；
3.作者张泽石，归来志愿军战俘的总翻译官、总代表，世界学术名著《金枝》译者之一，以“忠诚于祖国”“忠诚于战友”被推荐为“感动中国2010”候选人物之一。

On the tenth anniversary of the date that UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada is proud to publish the unforgettable first-hand account of the genocide by the man who led the UN mission. Digging deep into shattering memories, General Dallaire has written a powerful story of betrayal, naivete, racism and international politics. His message is simple and undeniable: "Never again." When Lt-Gen. Romeo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN intervention in Rwanda in 1993, he thought he was heading off on a modest and straightforward peacekeeping mission. Thirteen months later he flew home from Africa, broken, disillusioned and suicidal, having witnessed the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandans in only a hundred days. In "Shake Hands with the Devil", he takes the reader with him on a return voyage into the hell of Rwanda, vividly recreating the events the international community turned its back on. This book is an unsparing eyewitness account of the failure by humanity to stop the genocide, despite timely warnings. Woven through the story of this disastrous mission is Dallaire's own journey from confident Cold Warrior, to devastated UN commander, to retired general engaged in a painful struggle to find a measure of peace, reconciliation and hope. This book is General Dallaire's personal account of his conversion from a man certain of his worth and secure in his assumptions to a man conscious of his own weaknesses and failures and critical of the institutions he'd relied on. It might not sit easily with standard ideas of military leadership, but understanding what happened to General Dallaire and his mission to Rwanda is crucial to understanding the moral minefields our peacekeepers are forced to negotiate when we ask them to step into the world's dirty wars.

“中国头号大右派”章伯钧次女章诒和回首往事，并以此书献给已在天国的父母。书中描述史良、储安平、张伯驹、聂绀弩、康同璧、罗隆基等的起落沉浮，由诸多片断入手，组成一个个悲壮的场景，仿佛是一幅壁画，浓彩重墨间呈现出历史的真、人生的幻……
此书亦是一群经历旧社会、新中国的知识分子悲剧命运的真实写照。