Blood And Vengeance - Softcover

Sudetic, Chuck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140286810 ISBN 13: 9780140286816

Publisher: Penguin, 1999

Synopsis

Taking its place on the short list of essential books about the Bosnian struggle, Blood and Vengeance succeeds in putting a human face-on the conflict, rendering its devastation comprehensible to Western readers. Perhaps the most notorious and disputed outrage of the war was the massacre of as many as 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica. Although previously designated a safe area by the United Nations Security Council, Srebrenica was overrun by General Ratko Mladic's Bosnian Serb forces while U.N. peacekeeping troops stood by impotently.With novelistic eloquence and journalistic acumen, Sudetic follows several generations of the Celiks, the Muslim family he is related to by marriage, which met their tragic destiny at Srebrenica. His indelible portrait of these inhabitants of a remote mountaintop village outside of Srebrenica not only illumines the historical context of the tragedy but, more important, reveals the human impact of the horror. Blood and Vengeance contains the sweep and power of a panoramic historical painting, yet possesses the heartbreaking intimacy of a family snapshot.

About this title

About the Author:

Sudetic studied English, journalism, and Slavic languages at Ohio State University and Indiana University and was a Fulbright scholar in Yugoslavia during 1984 and 1985. He works as a political analyst for the International Crisis Group.

Synopsis:

The events surrounding the genocide of seven thousand Bosnian Muslims in 1995 by Bosnian Serbs is told through the odyssey of one Muslim family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140286810
• ISBN 13: 9780140286816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432