Volume 45, Number 2 · February 5, 1998
Bosnia: The Turning Point
By Mark Danner
BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THIS ARTICLE
Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia's War
by Ed Vulliamy
Simon and Schuster, 370 pp.
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia
by Chuck Sudetic
Norton
Survival in Sarajevo: How a Jewish Community Came to the Aid of Its City Distributed Art Publishers)
by Edward Serotta
Vienna: Christian Brandstätter (Distributed in the US by, 128 pp., $29.95
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Resurrection of Yugoslavia
by Tim Judah
Yale University Press, 350 pp., $30.00
Late-Breaking Foreign Policy: The News Media's Influence on Peace Operations
by Warren P. Stroebel
United States Institute of Peace, 275 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
by Laura Silber, by Allan Little
Penguin, 403 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War
by James Gow
Columbia University Press, 343 pp., $29.50
Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers—America's Last Ambassador Tells What Happened and Why
by Warren Zimmerman
Times Books, 269 pp., $25.00
Early one February afternoon in 1994, people in Sarajevo shed their heavy coats and hats and poured out into streets and markets, allowing themselves to forget, in the bright warming sun, that from artillery bunkers and snipers' nests dug into hills and mountains above the city hunters stared down, tracking their prey. But the people of Sarajevo were not permitted to forget. As we cruised the city's streets in a small armored car, climbing, under a trembling, light-filled sky, toward the Spanish Fort, signs fell abruptly into place: a sudden chaos of horns and screams and screeching tires; a blue van tearing by with one eye peering out from a shattered face, and, racing in its wake, a battered white Yugo with a smeared red handprint emblazoned on its door.
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