No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda

During 100 days in Spring 1994, Rwanda's descent into terror took an estimated 800,000 lives. The fastest-moving genocide in modern times was horrifying for its intimacy: Killers and victims were neighbors, friends, fellow churchgoers, workmates, even spouses. Murderers did their “work” with crude implements—machetes, hoes, nail-studded clubs—and lists of those doomed to die.

This was the terrifying reality for Tharcisse Seminega, a Tutsi professor at the National University of Rwanda in But...