Volume 44, Number 18 · November 20, 1997
The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe
By Mark Danner
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers—America's Last Ambassador Tells What Happened and Why
by Warren Zimmermann
Times Books, 269 pp., $25.00
Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime
by Jan Willem Honeg, by Norbert Both
Penguin, 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
The Reluctant Superpower: United States Policy in Bosnia, 1991-1995
by Wayne Bert
St. Martin's, 296 pp., $35.00
The World and Yugoslavia's Wars
edited by Richard H. Ullmann
Council on Foreign Relations, 230 pp., $18.95 (paper)
Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War
by James Gow
Columbia University Press, 343 pp., $29.50
The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
by Tim Judah
Yale University Press, 350 pp., $30.00
Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War
by Susan L. Woodward
Brookings, 536 pp., $19.95 (paper)
American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War: An Insider's Account of U.S. Policy in Europe, 1989-1992
by Robert L. Hutchings
Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press, 456 pp., $39.95
Scarcely two years ago, during the sweltering days of July 1995, any citizen of our civilized land could have pressed a button on a remote control and idly gazed, for an instant or an hour, into the jaws of a contemporary Hell. Taking shape upon the little screen, in that concurrent universe dubbed 'real time,' was a motley, seemingly endless caravan, bus after battered bus rolling to a stop and disgorging scores of exhausted, disheveled people. Stumbling down the stairs, bumping one against the other, the tens of thousands of Muslim refugees bent under the weight of bursting suitcases and battered trunks and unruly cloth bundles that now held their sole belongings. In their eyes one could make out fear and a dulled shock, an inability to comprehend how they, who hours before had slept in houses and driven cars and worked in fields, had so abruptly been recast as homeless beggars.
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