Volume 45, Number 5 · March 26, 1998
Bosnia: The Great Betrayal
By Mark Danner
BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THIS ARTICLE
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II
by David Rohde
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 440 pp., $24.00
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia
by Chuck Sudetic
Norton
The Reluctant Superpower: United States' Policy in Bosnia, 1991-95
by Wayne Bert
St. Martin's, 296 pp., $35.00
Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime
by Jan Willem Honig, by Norbert Both
Penguin Books, 204 pp., $11.95 (paper)
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
by Barbara Demick
Andrews and McMeel, 182 pp., $19.95
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
by Tim Judah
Yale University Press, 350 pp., $30.00
Plunging forward into pitch-black night, their faces lashed by unseen branches, Srebrenica's fleeing Muslims stumbled forward one against another. Fearing that the fifteen thousand men would disperse and scatter in the darkness, their commanders had linked many together with white string, one man's belt loop to the belt loop of the next, and then the next, until they formed an endless column snaking for mile after mile over eastern Bosnia's darkened mountains and through her wooded, mist-shrouded valleys. Fleeing fallen Srebrenica—which Serb soldiers had at last overwhelmed the day before, on July 11, 1995, after the enclave, its houses and buildings windowless and burned and pocked with shell-holes, its cratered streets teeming with homeless refugees, had endured more than three years of misery, the last two as a United Nations-protected 'safe area'—these Muslims shuffled blindly up and over Bosnia's black hills.
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