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A Problem from Hell
America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize For General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Award Winner In her award-winning interrogation of the last century of American history, Samantha Power -- a former Balkan war correspondent and founding executive director of Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy -- asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop... (more)
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With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia
by Åsne Seierstad
From the best-selling author of The Bookseller of Kabul , an account of thirteen ordinary Serbian people and how their lives changed before, during, and after the fall of Milosevic. From beloved international reporter Åsne Seierstad comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the... (more)
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Trespass
by Valerie Martin
Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights . Yet Chloe is disturbed—by the aggression of her government’s foreign policy, by the poacher who roams the land... (more)
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Endgame
The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II
by David Rohde
While covering the war in Bosnia for THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, David Rohde was the first reporter to find mass graves near Srebrenica. Here, this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist narrates the most vivid and comprehensive account written of the fall and massacre of Srebrenica, highlighting the cynical power politics and inefficiencies of the UN peacekeeping command in the former Yugoslavia.
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The Forgotten 500
The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
by Gregory A. Freeman
An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified documents and exclusive interviews. In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time.
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Inspector Adamsberg: Book 8
An Uncertain Place
by Fred Vargas
Commissaire Adamsberg leaves Paris for a three-day conference in London. Accompanying him are Estalere, a young Sargeant, and Commandant Danglard, who is terrified at the idea of travelling beneath the Channel. It is a welcome change of scenery, until a macabre and brutal case comes to the attention of their colleague Radstock from New Scotland Yard. Just outside the baroque old Highgate Cemetery a pile of shoes... (more)
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The Black Book of Bosnia: The Consequences of Appeasement (A New Republic Book)
The war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humanity have been committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, yet American and European policy makers have cravenly stood aside while whole villages and communities were erased from the face of the earth. Americans are appalled by the images on their television screens of the carnage, but most of us are... (more)
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Landscape Painted with Tea (Vintage International Series)
by Milorad Pavić
By the author of the highly acclaimed literary bestseller "Dictionary of the Khazars", "Landscape Painted with Tea", Milorad Pavic's second novel, is a tale of mysterious quest that is part modern Odyssey and part crossword puzzle. It begins with the story of a brilliant but failed architect in Belgrade and his search for his father, an officer who vanished in Greece during World War II. The truth about his... (more)
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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
by Saša Stanišić
Heralded as a "sorcerer of narrative" ( Foreign Policy ) with an instinct for "poetic and intoxicating language" ( Freie Presse ), twenty-nine-year-old Sasa Stanisić bounded onto the international literary scene to great fanfare and acclaim. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone --the tale of a boy who experiences the war in Bosnia and finds the secret to survival in language and stories--was the only debut... (more)
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A Guide to the Serbian Mentality
by Momo Kapor
Belgrade author and painter Momo Kapor has spent many years studying the mentality of his countrymen. The fruit of this literary research is this book, a book that will help you grasp the essence of the Serbian people and their way of life. This longtime columnist for the distinguished Serbian daily Politika and the monthly magazine JAT Review, published by JAT Airways, has compiled the best and most interesting... (more)
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Bosnia
A Short History
by Noel Malcolm
This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans, and the Austro-Hungarians overlapped. Clarifying the various myths that... (more)
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The Kitchen Boy
A Novel of the Last Tsar
by Robert Alexander
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra as seen through the eyes of the Romanovs’ young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims to be the last living witness to the Romanovs’ brutal murders and sets down the dark secrets of his past with the imperial... (more)
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Rising Up and Rising Down : Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
by William T. Vollmann
The authorized, abridged edition of the 3,000-page, seven-volume magnum opus, which was nominated for the US National Book Critic's Circle Award. The LA Times has said of Vollmann: 'He has an uncompromising intelligence that will change the way you think about all of history.' In this book, a labour of twenty-three years, Vollmann will change the way you think about violence. Vollmann brings to this subject... (more)
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The Golden
by Lucius Shepard
Deviating from traditional tales that feature lonely vampires who prowl through human society in search of victims or solace, this account of vampires flourishing in their own "inhuman society" takes place in the year 1860, when their centuries-long breeding experiments have finally produced "The Golden," a mortal whose blood is perfect and powerful. Mobilized by the news of this discovery, aristocratic vampire... (more)
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A Few Perfect Hours And Other Stories From Southeast Asia And Central Europe
by Josh Neufeld
In A FEW PERFECT HOURS (AND OTHER STORIES FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE), autobiographical cartoonist Josh Neufeld takes readers on a globetrotting tour. Highlights include Neufeld and traveling companion Sari Wilson's stint as extras in a Chinese-language Singaporean soap opera, a train trip through war-torn Serbia, and a near-disastrous cave adventure in Thailand. With gentle humor and a keen eye for... (more)
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The Canal House
by Mark Lee
Photojournalist Nicky Bettencourt thinks he's seen everything until he teams up with the legendary war correspondent Daniel McFarland. To Daniel, the story is everything; people come later. But after a plane crash nearly takes his life, Daniel begins to see the world in a different way. He falls in love with Julia Cadell, an idealistic British doctor, and together they find refuge at an old canal house in the... (more)
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The Death of Yugoslavia (BBC)
by Allan Little
"The Death of Yugoslavia" is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of view.
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The New Class
An Analysis of the Communist System
by Milovan Djilas
This classic by an associate of Yugoslavia's Tito created a sensation when it was published in 1957 because it was the first time that a ranking Communist had publicly analyzed his disillusionment with the system.
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Gotz and Meyer
by David Albahari
Götz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, “not a big one,” but one that “requires efficiency.” Their task is to transport prisoners from a concentration camp near Belgrade in a hermetically sealed truck, in which they are asphyxiated. The nameless narrator of Götz and Meyer , a Jewish schoolteacher, discovers Wilhelm Götz and Erwin Meyer while researching the deaths... (more)
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Central Europe
Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
by Lonnie Johnson
Throughout the Cold War era, the Iron Curtain divided Central Europe into a Communist East and a democratic West, and we grew accustomed to looking at this part of the world in bipolar ideological terms. Yet many people living on both sides of the Iron Curtain considered themselves Central Europeans, and the idea of Central Europe was one of the driving forces behind the revolutionary year of 1989 as well as the... (more)

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