Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996
Why the Balkans Are So Violent
By Misha Glenny
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
by Peter Maass
Knopf, 305 pp., $25.00
Nearly five years ago, I was taken to see the Svarc Hospital in Karlovac, a key military garrison town which defended the southern edge of the Habsburg Empire against the Ottomans until the end of the First World War. In July 1991, Karlovac was again a front-line town, this time just inside Croatian-held territory. The hospital was perilously close to the now-defunct Republic of Serbian Krajina, the Serbian enclave inside Croatia. Indeed, it was the first large building in the line of Serbian fire.
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