Volume 44, Number 20 · December 18, 1997
Clinton, the UN, and the Bosnian Disaster
By Mark Danner
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime
by Jan Willem Honeg, by Norbert Both
Penguin Books, 204 pp., $11.95 (paper)
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
Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media's Influence on Peace Operations
by Warren P. Strobel
United States Institute of Peace, 275 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia
by Chuck Sudetic
Norton
The Reluctant Superpower: United States Policy in Bosnia, 1991-1995
by Wayne Bert
St. Martin's, 296 pp., $35.00
Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War
by James Gow
Columbia University Press, 343 pp., $29.50
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
by David Rieff
Touchstone, 274 pp., $12.00 (paper)
In the bitter wind and cold of late December 1995, shortly before the coming of Orthodox Christmas, the Serb fathers of Sarajevo began trudging toward the graveyards. Passing through the gates, they traced their way slowly through the uneven rows of white wooden crosses and the mounds of black earth bordering the open graves until at last they halted, stared downward for a moment, and dropped to their knees, falling forward to kiss the white crosses that bore their sons' names.
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