Author: Giovanni, Janine Di
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year: 2004
ISBN: 0747560560
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description:
New book, 286 pages. Award winning jornalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the 1990's observing the cycles of Balkan violence and vengeance from inside the cities and villages, from the refugee camps, makeshift hospitals, and the homes of citizens under siege. It was a conflict that raised challenging questions: What causes neighbours whose families have lived peacefully side by side for centuries to turn with mindless brutality against one another? How do we measure the difference between bravery and cowardice in a conflict so morally ill-defined? What becomes of the survivors when the fabric of an age old community is permanently destroyed? Searching for the answers, this book brings the human face of war into piercing focus: children dying from lack of medicine, soldiers numbed by and inured to the atrocities they committed; women driven to despair and madness by their experiences in paramilitary rape camps.