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From an internationally celebrated war correspondent, a searing firsthand chronicle–told with extraordinary immediacy–of the ordeal of the Balkan people during the continuing breakup of Yugoslavia.
As a reporter for The Times of London, Janine di Giovanni found herself a close witness to the cycles of violence and vengeance in cities and villages, in refugee camps, in slapped-together hospitals, and in the homes of citizens under siege. She begins her story in May 1999 in Kosovo. The world believes the Balkan wars are over, but violence persists. She follows the arc of the war from its earliest days through the staggering experience of the people who endured it: soldiers numbed by–and inured to–the atrocities they commit, women driven to despair by their life in paramilitary rape camps, civilians (di Giovanni among them) caught in bombing raids of uncertain origin, babies murdered in hate-induced rage.
She searches for the motives of the leaders who created this hell: Slobodan Milosevic and his wife, Mira Markovic, and such crucial though less well-known figures as Nikola Koljevic, who directed the siege–and accomplished the destruction–of Sarajevo, the city he claimed to love.
Di Giovanni’s story raises profoundly challenging questions: What can cause neighbors who have lived peacefully side by side for centuries to turn against one another with mindless brutality? What becomes of survivors when the fabric of an age-old community is destroyed? How should other governments react to mass murder in a neighboring country?
Acutely perceptive, unflinching, making the madness of war visible, this is an important work of reportage from the physical and psychological front lines.
As a reporter for The Times of London, Janine di Giovanni found herself a close witness to the cycles of violence and vengeance in cities and villages, in refugee camps, in slapped-together hospitals, and in the homes of citizens under siege. She begins her story in May 1999 in Kosovo. The world believes the Balkan wars are over, but violence persists. She follows the arc of the war from its earliest days through the staggering experience of the people who endured it: soldiers numbed by–and inured to–the atrocities they commit, women driven to despair by their life in paramilitary rape camps, civilians (di Giovanni among them) caught in bombing raids of uncertain origin, babies murdered in hate-induced rage.
She searches for the motives of the leaders who created this hell: Slobodan Milosevic and his wife, Mira Markovic, and such crucial though less well-known figures as Nikola Koljevic, who directed the siege–and accomplished the destruction–of Sarajevo, the city he claimed to love.
Di Giovanni’s story raises profoundly challenging questions: What can cause neighbors who have lived peacefully side by side for centuries to turn against one another with mindless brutality? What becomes of survivors when the fabric of an age-old community is destroyed? How should other governments react to mass murder in a neighboring country?
Acutely perceptive, unflinching, making the madness of war visible, this is an important work of reportage from the physical and psychological front lines.
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"Devastating...A first hand account of a region's spiral into madness' --Publisher's Weekly (starred, lead review)
"Wholly memorable, entirely unsettling: one of the best piece of reportage to come from the Balkan abattoir" --Kirkus (starred review)
"Janine DiGiovani has described war in a way that almost makes me think it never needs to be described again. This is it, modern war: If you don't want to know what it's really like, don't pick up this book. More than a book about war, however, this is a book about the human race, in all its anguishing complexity. I can honestly say that I finished this book a wiser, more compassionate person than when I started." --Sebastian Junger
"Modern war has become ever more Satanic, and never more so than in the Balkans in the 1990s. Janine di Giovanni is our Virgil, guiding us through the circles of that man-made hell: Sarajevo, Kosovo, Pristina. Her depictions of the fighting recall the best correspondence to come out of the Spanish Civil War. Her portraits of the victims are moving, but she really shines in bringing to chilling life the perpetrators of "ethnic cleansing" -- today's euphemism for genocide. Anyone who still believes, despite ample evidence to the contrary, that intelligence, education, prosperity and cultural refinement immunize the human soul to evil must read her descriptions of professors, psychiatrists, and other intellectuals who chose to become monsters on the same level as the Nazis. If you read no other book about the Balkan wars, read this one. " --Phil Caputo
“Janine di Giovanni is superb–an extraordinarily brave war correspondent and a wonderful writer as well. What a combination!” --William Shawcross
"Janine di Giovanni took ten years out of her life to report on all those terrible wars in the former Yugoslavia. She tells us what it was really like on the frontline -- the squalor, the terror, the barbarity, and the randomness of death. But there was also comradeshiop, hope, glory and, occasionally, the triumph of the human spirit." --Phillipp Knightley, author of The First Casualty: The War Correspondent As Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo
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"Wholly memorable, entirely unsettling: one of the best piece of reportage to come from the Balkan abattoir" --Kirkus (starred review)
"Janine DiGiovani has described war in a way that almost makes me think it never needs to be described again. This is it, modern war: If you don't want to know what it's really like, don't pick up this book. More than a book about war, however, this is a book about the human race, in all its anguishing complexity. I can honestly say that I finished this book a wiser, more compassionate person than when I started." --Sebastian Junger
"Modern war has become ever more Satanic, and never more so than in the Balkans in the 1990s. Janine di Giovanni is our Virgil, guiding us through the circles of that man-made hell: Sarajevo, Kosovo, Pristina. Her depictions of the fighting recall the best correspondence to come out of the Spanish Civil War. Her portraits of the victims are moving, but she really shines in bringing to chilling life the perpetrators of "ethnic cleansing" -- today's euphemism for genocide. Anyone who still believes, despite ample evidence to the contrary, that intelligence, education, prosperity and cultural refinement immunize the human soul to evil must read her descriptions of professors, psychiatrists, and other intellectuals who chose to become monsters on the same level as the Nazis. If you read no other book about the Balkan wars, read this one. " --Phil Caputo
“Janine di Giovanni is superb–an extraordinarily brave war correspondent and a wonderful writer as well. What a combination!” --William Shawcross
"Janine di Giovanni took ten years out of her life to report on all those terrible wars in the former Yugoslavia. She tells us what it was really like on the frontline -- the squalor, the terror, the barbarity, and the randomness of death. But there was also comradeshiop, hope, glory and, occasionally, the triumph of the human spirit." --Phillipp Knightley, author of The First Casualty: The War Correspondent As Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo
Janine di Giovanni is a senior foreign correspondent for The Times of London and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. She has won Granada Television’s Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award, the National Magazine Award issued by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and two Amnesty International Media Awards for human rights reporting. Author of Against the Stranger: Lives in Occupied Territory and The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo, she also wrote the introduction to Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s View of Sarajevo. Born in the United States, she received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has lived in London since 1985. She is married to the French journalist Bruno Girodon.
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- Publication date2003
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