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Hearts Grown Brutal : Sagas of Sarajevo 9 reviews Roger Cohen
Random House, 2001
THE definative account of the Bosnian war
+ Well-written account of the atrocities in Bosnia + If you live an enire life and only read one book + Extract from żBooks on Bosniaż, London 1999 + A sad, depressing, and brutally honest book
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Land Without Justice 2 reviews Milovan Dilas
Harcourt, 1972
Land Without Justice
+ neglected classic of yugoslavia
Born in Montenegro in 1911, Milovan Djilas saw his homeland folded into the communist built nation of Yugoslavia. In deceptively simple, yet lyrical, prose he explains the political, religious and racial feuds that play a crucial role in the region's history. Rising to leadership in the communist ...
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Auschwitz: A History in Photographs 3 reviews
Indiana University Press, 1993
A great picture novel that helped me learn more.
+ A Testament To The Memory Of The Innocents Who Were Murdered + Excellent Pictorial Account
I'm still yet a child, and still yet to grow, but I will never grow out of the rememberence of the Holocaust. It was a time in our worlds history that we should never forget. This book helps reminds us of it and gives us a better view and perspective of what happen and to never take advantage of ...
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz 30 reviews Lucette Matalon Lagnado, Sheila Cohn Dekel
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992
Testament to suvivors of horror
+ title is misleading, but content is excellent + Excellent book! + confusing the reader
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Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia 21 reviews Chuck Sudetic
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999
No agreement
+ Skillful and vivid portrayals + A powerful and disturbing account of the war in Bosnia!
The book is confusing because the wars were confusing. The names present difficulties in the manner of a Russian novel. There is a chart of the main characters. It is extensive. By 1993 the author was in his fifth year in Bosnia reporting on the conflict for THE NEW YORK TIMES. Traveling ...
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Justice in the Balkans: Prosecuting War Crimes in the Hague Tribunal (Chicago Series in Law and Society) John Hagan
University Of Chicago Press, 2003
Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U.N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 employees and a $100 million annual budget. With Slobodan Milosevic now on trial and more than forty fellow indictees currently detained, the success of ...
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To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia 45 reviews Michael Parenti
Verso, 2001
Excellent
+ Another side of a story + A cry in the emptyness + To Kill A Nation is EXCEPTIONAL!
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Inat : Images of Serbia and the Kosovo Conflict 6 reviews Scott Taylor
Esprit de Corps, 2000
Finally some truth......
+ Excelent book! + A perfect mixture of facts and personal experience + INAT: Ask the Infantry + NATO's war - the untold story
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Sarajevo: A War Journal 6 reviews Zlatko Dizdarevic
Fromm Intl, 1993
Essential reading from żBooks on Bosniaż
+ The terror of life in Sarajevo. + An Amazing, Shocking Journal of the Balkan Conflict! + Chilling journal of siege's first 16 months + Sarajevo: A War Journal
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The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda 12 reviews Elizabeth Neuffer
Picador, 2002
A GREAT COMPANION
+ Important questions, and an excellent treatment of same. + Justice Delivered?
Neuffer has written a great companion to the works of Gourevitch and Samantha Power. A Key... is somewhat more intense, powerful reading. It is a primary source compilation of the horror stories that were Bosnia and Rwanda. Keeping track of all the players and respective groups is a little ...
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Serbian Bible Vuk Karadzic & Djuro Danicic
American Bible Society, 2000
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Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia Lynne Jones
Harvard University Press, 2005
You are nine years old. Your best friend's father is arrested, half your classmates disappear from school, and someone burns down the house across the road. You think your neighbors were planning to kill your family. You are eight years old and imprisoned in your home by your father's old friends. You are ten years old and must climb a mountain at night to escape the soldiers trying to shoot you. ...
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (Twentieth-Century Classics) 50 reviews Rebecca West
Penguin Classics, 1995
For All That
+ A Croat's Return to Yugoslavia + a fascinating mess + Unique mosaic of time and places now gone
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The Bosnia Elegies Adrian Oktenberg
Paris Press, 1997
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The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction Series) 71 reviews Ivo Andric
University Of Chicago Press, 1977
a great 20th century novel
+ The definition of Epic Masterpiece + The Bridge on the Drina + BRIDGE ON THE RIVER DRINA + Bosnian Heartbreaking History
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda 214 reviews Philip Gourevitch
Picador, 1999
Arrogance and Ignorance: How the World Failed Rwanda
+ The best, most educational and most gripping account of the genocide + Never Again, again + A indictment of the international response to genocide..
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Witness to Jasenovac's Hell 8 reviews Ilija Ivanovic
Dallas Publishing, 2002
Devastatingly truthful read.
+ Real holocaust story + Was about time we found out about these attrocities + Great book
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Natasha's Story 1 review Michael Nicholson
Pan Books, 1997
Welcome to Sarajevo: a masterpice
I find the book not only informative about the history of the balkans, but it also provides a breathtaking account of the hardships vivited upon the Bosnian people cruelity that was visisted upon Bosnia and its children thanks to the ethnic cleasnisng project engineered and conducted by Serb ...
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Harvest in the Snow: My Crusade to Rescue the Lost Children of Bosnia 1 review Ellen Blackman
Potomac Books Inc., 1997
Political indifference & the effects on a new generation
Despite editorial reviews rating Ms. Blackman's account of her actions and experiences in Sarejevo to be "unfocused" and Ms. Blackman "her own personal heroine", I found her writing to be clear and concise regarding the "peacekeeping" mission and it's reception from those it was "protecting". Her ...
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Cry Bosnia 2 reviews Paul Harris
Interlink Pub Group Inc, 1996
REFLECTIONS FROM A WAR
+ Heartbreaking and Beautiful
I found this book hidden in the corner of the post exchange on Eagle Base in Tuzla. From the moment I opened its pages I knew that I would never put it down. Many volumes speak about the political, social, economic and ethnic divisions which caused the war in the Balkans. Cry Bosnia is not a dry ...
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