yugoslav war, 1991-1995

Providing an indispensable resource for students and policy makers investigating the Bosnian catastrophes of the 1990s, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the leaders, ideas, movements, and events pertaining to one of the most devastating conflicts of contemporary times. Provides nearly 150 entries--written in a clear and concise style by leading international authorities--that summarize the roles of the leaders involved in the Bosnian Conflict of 1992-1995 and beyond as well as contextualizing essays on various facets of the Bosnian Conflicts. Considers and evaluates the various strategies adopted by members of the international community in trying to bring the war to an end. Edited by renowned genocide scholar, Paul R. Bartrop, PhD.

When Halid, a young Muslim war hero, returns home from the Bosnia War, he wants nothing more than to reconnect with the friends of his youth, but he soon realizes that the war, and the government, has torn his former life away from him.

The diary of a thirteen-year-old girl living in Sarajevo, begun just before her eleventh birthday when there was still peace in her homeland.

Kenan Trebin?evi?, a survivor of the Bosnian War, returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family and recounts how he survived the ethnic cleansing campaign that swept the former Yugoslavia in 1992.

A war correspondent describes people and events of the war in Bosnia where the entire country is a battleground and every person is a combatant, in an attempt to answer the question of why war exists.

Chronicles the harrowing journey of Ehmet, a thirteen-year-old boy from Sarajevo who gets caught up in the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.

Chronicles the Bosnian War and the horrific siege of Sarajevo as seen through the eyes of regular citizens living on Logavina Street, who struggled with hunger, poverty, sniper fire, and shellings.