Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place Peter Eichstaedt
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

Peter Eichstaedt's "Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place" seems at first glance to be in this vein. Essential reading that provides critical context and background on these hotspots are: First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army; Pirate State: Inside Somalia's Terrorism at Sea; and Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place. Every time you use a cell phone or log on to a computer, you could be contributing to the death toll in the bloodiest, most violent region in the world: the eastern Congo. These forebodings proved to be more than accurate. Have you seen Peter Eichstaedt's "Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place"? War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place. The title alone is enough to warn me it will not be an easy read, nor a pleasant one: Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place. The fighting that gripped Congo from 1998 through 2003 was the most deadly conflict since World War II, involving nine nations and twenty different armed groups. 12:20-12:35 — Terry Frei, Olympic Affair, A Novel of Hitler's Siren and America's Hero. For an authoritative look at the causes of war in eastern Congo and role of illegal exploitation of minerals see the book, Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place. 12:40-12:55 — Peter Eichstaedt, Consuming The Congo. Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place. Http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576514742461603426.html.