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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Peter Maass went to the Balkans as a reporter at the height of the nightmarish war there, but this book is not traditional war reportage. Maass examines how an ordinary Serb could wake up one morning and shoot his neighbor, once a friend--then rape... read more

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WHEN YOU GROW up in America, you don't really learn how foul humans can smell, just as you don't learn about the smell of death.

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  1. Peter Maass (Author)

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  1. balkans
  2. history
  3. library
  4. nonfiction
  5. war 
 

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