De Witte has assembled a staggering amount of detail to support his allegations of direct government participation in Lumumba's murder.
Washington Post Book World
De Witte has performed an important service in establishing the facts of Lumumba's last days and Belgium's responsibility for what happened.
New York Review of Books
De Witte writes without stylish frills ... Read moreor narrative tricks, but this is a vivid and utterly compelling account of a nation strangled at birth by the West.
Ronan Bennett
Los Angeles Times
De Witte's book, politically passionate as it is, is an unignorable effort to bring the West face to face with its culpability in this entire sad and sanguinary tale.
Richard Bernstein
New York Times
One Belgian author has triumphed over decades of official obfuscation: Belgium did collude in Patrice Lumumba's assassination ... It raises questions about Western policy in Africa that will reverberate for decades to come.
Michela Wrong
Financial Times
One should never underestimate the ruthlessness of British gentlemen cradling endangered shares.
Neal Ascherson
London Review of Books
Thoroughly researched, passionately written, deeply disturbing.
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Whilst the battle for control over the resources of the Congo (now DR Congo) continues today this important book restores Congolese history and saves it from the official version peddled by those directly implicated in the affair.
New Internationalist
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