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Sarajevo Under Siege

Author : Ivana Maček
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812294386
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Sarajevo Under Siege written by Ivana Maček and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the creativity with which they responded to desperate circumstances. Ivana Maček, an anthropologist who grew up in the former Yugoslavia, argues that the division of Bosnians into antagonistic ethnonational groups was the result rather than the cause of the war, a view that was not only generally assumed by Americans and Western Europeans but also deliberately promoted by Serb, Croat, and Muslim nationalist politicians. Nationalist political leaders appealed to ethnoreligious loyalties and sowed mistrust between people who had previously coexisted peacefully in Sarajevo. Normality dissolved and relationships were reconstructed as individuals tried to ascertain who could be trusted. Over time, this ethnography shows, Sarajevans shifted from the shock they felt as civilians in a city under siege into a "soldier" way of thinking, siding with one group and blaming others for the war. Eventually, they became disillusioned with these simple rationales for suffering and adopted a "deserter" stance, trying to take moral responsibility for their own choices in spite of their powerless position. The coexistence of these contradictory views reflects the confusion Sarajevans felt in the midst of a chaotic war. Maček respects the subjectivity of her informants and gives Sarajevans' own words a dignity that is not always accorded the viewpoints of ordinary citizens. Combining scholarship on political violence with firsthand observation and telling insights, this book is of vital importance to people who seek to understand the dynamics of armed conflict along ethnonational lines both within and beyond Europe.

Sarajevo Daily

Author : Tom Gjelten
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sarajevo Daily written by Tom Gjelten and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroic role of the city's multiethnic daily newspaper during the siege of Sarajevo.

Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy

Author : Alex Dowdall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137585323
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy written by Alex Dowdall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are particularly vulnerable. Siege warfare is a form of combat that has usually had devastating effects on civilian populations. From the near-contemporary Siege of Sarajevo to the real and mythical sieges of the ancient Mediterranean, this has been a recurring type of military engagement which, through bombardment, starvation, disease and massacre, places non-combatants at the heart of battle. To date, however, there has been little recognition of the effects of siege warfare on civilians. This edited volume addresses this gap. Using a distinctive regressive method, it begins with the present and works backwards, avoiding teleological interpretations that suggest the targeting of civilians in war is a modern phenomenon. Its contributors interrogate civilians’ roles during sieges, both as victims and active participants; the laws and customs of siege warfare; its place in historical memory, and the ways civilian survivors have dealt with trauma. Its scope and content ensure that the collection is essential reading for all those interested in the place of civilians in war. Chapter 2 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

War Within

Author : Ivana Maček
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book War Within written by Ivana Maček and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo

Author : Kenneth Morrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350081795
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo written by Kenneth Morrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Siege of Sarajevo remains the longest siege in modern European history, lasting three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and over a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad. Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo provides the first detailed account of the reporting of this siege and the role that journalists played in highlighting both military and non-military aspects of it. The book draws on detailed primary and secondary material in English and Bosnian, as well as extensive interviews with international correspondents who covered events in Sarajevo from within siege lines. It also includes hitherto unpublished images taken by the co-author and award-winning photojournalist, Paul Lowe. Together Morrison and Lowe document a relatively short but crucial period in both the history of Bosnia & Herzegovina, the city of Sarajevo and the profession of journalism. The book provides crucial observations and insights into an under-researched aspect of a critical period in Europe's recent history.

The Quick and the Dead

Author : Janine Di Giovanni
Publisher : Phoenix
ISBN 13 : 9781857993332
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Quick and the Dead written by Janine Di Giovanni and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1995 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blue Helmets and Black Markets

Author : Peter Andreas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457041
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Blue Helmets and Black Markets written by Peter Andreas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992–1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an intense global media spotlight, becoming the most visible face of post-Cold War conflict and humanitarian intervention. However, some critical activities took place backstage, away from the cameras, including extensive clandestine trading across the siege lines, theft and diversion of aid, and complicity in the black market by peacekeeping forces. In Blue Helmets and Black Markets, Peter Andreas traces the interaction between these formal front-stage and informal backstage activities, arguing that this created and sustained a criminalized war economy and prolonged the conflict in a manner that served various interests on all sides. Although the vast majority of Sarajevans struggled for daily survival and lived in a state of terror, the siege was highly rewarding for some key local and international players. This situation also left a powerful legacy for postwar reconstruction: new elites emerged via war profiteering and an illicit economy flourished partly based on the smuggling networks built up during wartime. Andreas shows how and why the internationalization of the siege changed the repertoires of siege-craft and siege defenses and altered the strategic calculations of both the besiegers and the besieged. The Sarajevo experience dramatically illustrates that just as changes in weapons technologies transformed siege warfare through the ages, so too has the arrival of CNN, NGOs, satellite phones, UN peacekeepers, and aid convoys. Drawing on interviews, reportage, diaries, memoirs, and other sources, Andreas documents the business of survival in wartime Sarajevo and the limits, contradictions, and unintended consequences of international intervention. Concluding with a comparison of the battle for Sarajevo with the sieges of Leningrad, Grozny, and Srebrenica, and, more recently, Falluja, Blue Helmets and Black Markets is a major contribution to our understanding of contemporary urban warfare, war economies, and the political repercussions of humanitarian action.

Empty Casing

Author : Fred Doucette
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926685679
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Empty Casing written by Fred Doucette and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Canadian soldier Fred Doucette went to Bosnia-Herzegovina as a peacekeeper in 1995, he had a premonition that this tour of duty would be different from anything he had previously experienced. And it was. Doucette's tour quickly became an impossible task that took a huge toll on both the residents and his fellow peacekeepers. Trapped in thier beloved city, thousands of Sarajevans, perished, and yet, Doucette found a home in the midst of this hell. Billeted with a Bosnian family, he was offered a window into a Sarajevo that few outsiders saw. When the war ended, Doucette returned to Canada to face another battle, this one characterized by nightmares and brutal flashbacks. Traumatized, he had to face himself, his family, and his army once again, but now there was no turning away, no diversion in another foreign posting. Empty Casing is the riveting story of the making and unmaking of a soldier, and the growth of a man.

Sarajevo

Author : Matthew Naythons
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446518246
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Sarajevo written by Matthew Naythons and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1994 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs depict the city of Sarajevo and document its destruction and the human toll exacted by the siege

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Author : Steven Galloway
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371654
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Cellist of Sarajevo written by Steven Galloway and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undaunted in their midst. One day a shell lands in a bread line and kills twenty-two people as the cellist watches from a window in his flat. He vows to sit in the hollow where the mortar fell and play Albinoni’s Adagio once a day for each of the twenty-two victims. The Adagio had been re-created from a fragment after the only extant score was firebombed in the Dresden Music Library, but the fact that it had been rebuilt by a different composer into something new and worthwhile gives the cellist hope. Meanwhile, Kenan steels himself for his weekly walk through the dangerous streets to collect water for his family on the other side of town, and Dragan, a man Kenan doesn’t know, tries to make his way towards the source of the free meal he knows is waiting. Both men are almost paralyzed with fear, uncertain when the next shot will land on the bridges or streets they must cross, unwilling to talk to their old friends of what life was once like before divisions were unleashed on their city. Then there is “Arrow,” the pseudonymous name of a gifted female sniper, who is asked to protect the cellist from a hidden shooter who is out to kill him as he plays his memorial to the victims. In this beautiful and unforgettable novel, Steven Galloway has taken an extraordinary, imaginative leap to create a story that speaks powerfully to the dignity and generosity of the human spirit under extraordinary duress.

Sarajevo

Author : Zlatko Dizdarević
Publisher : Owl Books
ISBN 13 : 9780805035353
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Sarajevo written by Zlatko Dizdarević and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal accounts describe life in a city under seige

Sarajevo Marlboro

Author : Miljenko Jergovic
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1935744739
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Sarajevo Marlboro written by Miljenko Jergovic and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miljenko Jergovic’s remarkable début collection of stories, Sarajevo Marlboro – winner of the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize – earned him wide acclaim throughout Europe. Croatian by birth, Jergovic ? spent his childhood in Sarajevo and chose to remain there throughout most of the war. A dazzling storyteller, he brings a profoundly human, razor-sharp understanding of the fate of the city’s young Muslims, Croats, and Serbs with a subterranean humor and profoundly personal vision. Their offbeat lives and daily dramas in the foreground, the killing zone in the background.

Sarajevo Survival Guide

Author : Miroslav Prstojević
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sarajevo Survival Guide written by Miroslav Prstojević and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parody of a travel guidebook written during the Siege of Sarajevo from 1992-1993.

Besieged

Author : Barbara Demick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847084118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Besieged written by Barbara Demick and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a cosmopolitan city, home to Muslims and Christians, Serbs and Croats. Then the war tore the street apart. In this extraordinary eyewitness account, Demick weaves together the stories of ten families from Logavina Street.

Sarajevo

Author : Robert J. Donia
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472115570
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Sarajevo written by Robert J. Donia and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on Sarajevo as a cosmopolitan gem deserving of a central role in the world's cultural, social, and political history

My Childhood Under Fire

Author : Nadja Halilbegovich
Publisher : Kids Can Press
ISBN 13 : 9781554532674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book My Childhood Under Fire written by Nadja Halilbegovich and published by Kids Can Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Bombs are exploding all over the city. I hide my feelings from everyone, but I am drowning in despair. When will this war end? For how long will my life consist of the dead space between two explosions?? --- June 6, 1995 On the first day of the siege of Sarajevo, 12-year-old Nadja Halilbegovich's life changed forever. In the face of constant tank and sniper fire, daily life in this beautiful, mountain-ringed city was suddenly full of fear. Without reliable electricity, water or medical supplies, the blockaded city ground to a halt. Nadja and her fellow citizens tried desperately to live normal lives while forced to scrounge for even the most basic necessities. My Childhood Under Fire is Nadja's diary of the years 1992-95. It is her personal account of becoming a teenager during wartime. It is also a monument to the thousands killed during the siege of Sarajevo and to the millions of children around the world who still live --- and die --- under fire.

Fax From Sarajevo (New Edition)

Author : Joe Kubert
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506716636
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Fax From Sarajevo (New Edition) written by Joe Kubert and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new edition of the greatest work from comics master Joe Kubert! The astonishing true story of a family in Sarajevo, Bosnia, trapped in a city under siege as war and genocide rage around them, with only a fax machine to communicate. On the receiving end of these faxes from his trapped friend, Kubert brilliantly illustrates their struggle toward freedom against the worst kind of odds. It's the tale of a very real war, told from the perspective of innocent victims, but it's also full of strength, survival, and love.