yugoslav war, 1991-1995

Savo Heleta recounts the experiences he had while living in war-torn Bosnia, describing the horror he and his family faced at the hands of a former family friend who murdered his grandfather and terrorized his family throughout the war.

In Belgium in 1999, upon learning that her brother who was reported killed by a landmine in Bosnia may still be alive, sixteen-year-old Anna resents that she is the only one strong enough to try to uncover the truth.

Seeing his sister being shot to death for reading a poem at a demonstration against Serbian control of largely Albanian Kosovo changes forever the life of thirteen-year-old Adem.

Provides an in-depth look at the current turmoil in the former country of Yugoslavia.

A collection of stories, essays, poems, and letters in which refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia discuss the impact the Yugoslav War has had on their lives.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine the events that led to the demise of the former Yugoslavia.

The author is a relief worker and child psychiatrist who interviewed over forty Serb and Muslim children who came of age during the Bosnian War in the 1990's. She returned twenty years later to discover the adults they have become. Their poignant stories illuminate the resilience of the human spirit.

In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. This book is based on the testimonies of sixty female survivors of the massacre who were interviewed by Dutch historian Selma Leydesdorff.

Examines how the Balkan Wars of the 1990s tore apart the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and helped to create totally separate social, cultural, and ethnic borders.