| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
305 pages : map ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292) and index. |
| Contents |
The wild beast -- Ground zero -- Country of heroes -- Merry Christmas, Sarajevo -- Mr. Suicide -- Pulling out -- The appeasers. |
| Summary |
From the center of the nightmare in Bosnia, a war correspondent's flaming montage of images - eerie, grotesque, ironic, angry, absurd. A Serb and a Muslim, friends before the war, exchanging gossip via shortwave radio only hours before they will try to kill each other. A Sarajevo couple passionately refusing to go anywhere together for fear a mortar shell might orphan their children. A battlefield doctor performing miracles of surgery without anesthetics. In episode after episode, Peter Maass takes us with him into the minefields of modern war: a whole country is the battleground, every living being in it a combatant. His fierce, vivid, truth-telling and deeply personal book makes us see the devil under the skin - and the thinness of the line between civilization and chaos. |
| Subject |
Maass, Peter, 1960-
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Maass, Peter, 1960- (OCoLC)fst00363147
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History -- 1992-
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Bosnia and Herzegovina. (OCoLC)fst01212749
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Yugoslav War (1991-1995) (OCoLC)fst01183774 |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1991
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Personal narratives -- American.
(OCoLC)fst01424071
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Personal narratives.
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| ISBN |
0679444335 |
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9780679444336 |
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