Twelve Hundred Names on a Guest Register

In April 1994, as machete-wielding Interahamwe militias swept through Kigali, Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina stood behind the front desk of the Hôtel des Mille Collines — not as a hero, but as a hotel manager doing the only thing he knew how to do. He checked people in. A Hutu married to a Tutsi woman named Tatiana, Rusesabagina understood that the genocide consuming his country would devour his own family if he did nothing.…