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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)

With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia

With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia

by Asne 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)

Landscape Painted with Tea (Vintage International Series)

Landscape Painted with Tea (Vintage International Series)

by Milorad Pavic

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)

Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II

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.

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)

Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War

Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War

by Susan L. Woodward

The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991-92 brought about the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, atrocities on massive scale, and a new term, "ethnic cleansing", for the tactics of nationalist civil war. The failure of Western action to prevent the spread of violence or to negotiate peace disheartened Europeans in their drive to greater unity and turned the euphoria about the "new world... (more)

Milosevic: A Biography

by Adam LeBor

Slobodan Milosevic, a man the world hoped it would never see again, is currently on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague for crimes against humanity. This engrossing biography documents the life of the former Serbian leader, whose policies instigated wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo as well as the bloody campaigns of ethnic cleansing that destroyed a once multi-national country.... (more)

War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation

War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation

The violence following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia has lasted for more than a decade and continues to mark the region. This volume analyses the causes of the conflict and describes its course from the onset of war in Croatia to intervention in Kosovo. The book concentrates on four key transformations: the demise of Yugoslavia and the creation of new states; the importance of nationalist ideologies in the... (more)

The Black Book of Bosnia: The Consequences of Appeasement (A New Republic Book)

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)

Macedonia: Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans

Macedonia: Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans

by John Phillips

A bloody rebellion by Albanian guerrillas demanding equal rights in Macedonia has killed and wounded thousands of people and led to fears that the crisis will embroil Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria and Greece. International intervention brought an uneasy halt to the blood-letting last summer, but hardline Macedonian nationalists have blocked full implementation of the peace agreement and there are now fears that the... (more)

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War, Second Edition

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War, Second Edition

by Marcus Tanner

In this book an eyewitness to the breakup of Yugoslavia provides the first full and impartial account of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Croatia from its medieval origins to today's tentative peace. Marcus Tanner describes the turbulence and drama of Croatia's past and--drawing on his own experience and interviews with many of the leading figures in Croatia's conflict--explains its violent history since... (more)

Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia: And the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia: And the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

by Richard West

A revealing biography of Tito, the Yugoslav leader who was a partisan against the Germans and the first Communist head to break with the Soviet Union, considers his role in the breakup of Yugoslavia after his death.

People of the Book: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March , the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish... (more)

Are We There Yet? Travels with my frontline family: Travels with My Frontline Family

Are We There Yet? Travels with my frontline family: Travels with My Frontline Family

by Rosie Whitehouse

A vivid, funny, and very human account of the author's travels with her family through war-torn Europe. Are We There Yet? is about sitting on the sofa at home and watching cruise missiles rain down on your father's head-then eating your baked beans and doing your homework. It's about being five years old and wondering why Daddy's boots are covered in mud from a mass grave and who was in it. It's the story of... (more)

How to understand Serbs

by Nicholas Comrie

"How to Understand Serbs" je svojevrsni turisticki vodic napisan na engleskom jeziku, namenjen turistima i svim drugim inostranim posetiocima Srbije, kao i onima koji tek planiraju da je posete. Vodic je koncipiran tako da se u nizu tekstova sa snaznim autorskim pristupom nudi odgovor na cesto postavljano pitanje: Kako razumeti Srbe? Uz brojna zanimljiva vidjenja i opservacije - koji su tematski obelezeni... (more)

Cum repara soldatul gramofonul

by Sasa Stanisic

The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System

The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System

by Milovan Djilas

Kultura laz?i. (English)

by Dubravka Ugres?ic?

This is a collection of cynical but uniformly unbiased "antipolitical essays" portraying the reality of Communist and post-Communist Yugoslavia. Ugresic's (Have a Nice Day, LJ 3/1/95) intent is not to clarify the politics behind the fall of Yugoslavia but to question the definition of "Yugoslav identity" and critique its shattered culture. She firmly argues that, despite the fall of the Communist regime, the lives... (more)

Madness Visible : A Memoir of War

by Janine Di Giovanni

From an internationally celebrated war correspondent, a searing firsthand chronicle–told with extraordinary immediacy–of the ordeal of the Balkan people during the continuing breakup of Yugoslavia. As a reporter for The Times of London, Janine di Giovanni found herself a close witness to the cycles of violence and vengeance in cities and villages, in refugee camps, in slapped-together hospitals, and in the... (more)

Encyclopedia of the Dead (European Classics)

Encyclopedia of the Dead (European Classics)

by Michael Henry Heim, Danilo Kis

This collection of short stories depicts human relationships, encounters, landscapes and the multitude of details that make up human life.

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America and the Age of Genocide

by Samantha Power