Volume 45, Number 16 · October 22, 1998
'Operation Storm'
By Mark Danner
BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THIS ARTICLE
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War
by Marcus Tanner
Yale University Press (paper; to be published in November), 338 pp., $16.00 (paper)
To End a War
by Richard Holbrooke
Random House, 408 pp., $27.95
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
by Barbara Demick, photographs by John Costello
Andrews and McMeel, 182 pp., $19.95
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
by Laura Silber, by Allan Little
Penguin, 403 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Standing motionless among their hulking war machines like statues in the dark, 200,000 Croat soldiers dropped their cigarettes, then clambered into tanks and trucks and armored personnel carriers and, in a sudden earsplitting eruption of grating gears, pushed forward into Serb-held Krajina. Thus began, before dawn on August 4, 1995, 'Operation Storm.' Within hours Croat commanders knew their code name had been well chosen; for everywhere Serb soldiers—40,000 of them, with 400 tanks—retreated, melting away in the rising August sun. Within little more than a day the red-and-white checkerboard flag of Croatia was flying once more over the castle high above the Krajina's 'capital' of Knin.
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