Mission For Hammarskjold: The Congo Crisis
As the head of the U.N. mission to the Congo in 1960-61, the author found himself impaled between Congolese factions as well as between the West and the rest; this position gave him the perspective to write what seems to be an objective-and is without doubt a most gripping-account of the much-disputed events there (including new material on the involvement of the U.N. in the Kasavubu and Mobutu coups, the arrest of Lumumba, and Hammarskjold's death).
Sign-up for free weekly updates from ForeignAffairs.com.