1. Introduction : The expulsion order -- Africa's fratricidal war -- The argument -- Approach -- Contributions -- Plan of the book -- Part I : The ARGUMENT : 2. Liberation, counter-revolution and war -- 3. Winning the war, losing the peace: the liberation of Zaire and the outbreak of Africa's Great War ; Part II: The WAR to END ALL WARS -- 4. The gathering storm : Mobutu's Zaire, the African Liberation Project and the Rwandan patriotic front -- 5. Comrades preparing for war: the alliance to overthrow Mobutu -- 6. The campaign : the sprint to Kinshasa and the Rwandan-Angolan Cold War ; Part III : FROM TRIUMPH to TRAGEDY : the PATH to AFRICA's GREAT WAR : 7. The post-Mobutu order and politics after liberation -- 8. The unraveling : internal and external strains on the Alliance - 9.Back against the wall : the return of the Génocidaire threat -- 10. Kabila's pre-emptive stike: the Kinshasa endgame -- 11. Comrades go to war : triangular diplomacy between Kinshasa, Kigali and Luanda -- Part IV: CONCLUSION : 12. Why comrades go to war -- Appendix : Methodological note.