Reading List
WHY BOSNIA? Writings on the Balkan War
Edited by Rabia Ali & Lawrence Lifschultz. Stony Creek, Conn.: Pamphleteer Press, 1993Excellent collection of essays, articles and poetry on Bosnia, very much from the Bosnian advocacy point of view, ranging from work by Christopher Hitchens and David Rieff, and a Vanity Fair piece, to articles by Balkan writers like Ivo Banac, Slavenka Draculic, and Kemal Kurspah destruction of a multinational and multi-cultural political entity and society. A key text and an ideal starting point. A portion of proceeds will go to a fund for the reconstruction of Sarajevo's National Library.
THE FALL OF YUGOSLAVIA: THE THIRD BALKAN WAR
By Misha Glenny. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.A journalist give his first-hand glimpse into the mentality, personalities and behaviors of the leaders of the Balkan Wars. Excellent on history and politics. Virtually unique in the evenhandedness of its perspective.
SARAJEVO: A WAR JOURNAL
By Zlatko Dizdarevic. Preface by Joseph Brodsky. New York: Fromm International, 1993.BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: ATLAS OF WAR AND PEACE
With special reports by correspondents of The New York Times. Maps by the Bertelsmann Cartographic Institute. New York: Macmillan, 1996.A WITNESS TO GENOCIDE
By Roy Gutman. New York: Macmillan, 1993.Compiled from the reporter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsday articles on Serb "ethnic cleansing" and genocide in Bosnia. From November 1991 to June 1993, Gutman chronicles the progress of an abomination: freight trains packed with helpless human beings; the tortured, raped, and mutilated bodies; death camps; and a section of the systematic destruction of culture (pp. 77-83): "Unholy War: Serbs Target Culture and Heritage of Bosnia's Muslims." An indispensable reminder of the nature of the war.
SARAJEVO DAILY: A CITY AND ITS NEWSPAPER UNDER SIEGE
By Tom Gjelten. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.LETTERS FROM SARAJEVO: VOICES OF A BESIEGED CITY
By Anna Cataldi. Foreword by Roy Gutman. Rockport, Mass.: Element, 1994.BOSNIA: A SHORT HISTORY
By Noel Malcolm. New York: New York University Press, 1994.THE BRIDGE ON DRINA
By Ivo Andrich (1892-1975). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.An epic, graphic and frightening novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author, the story of the Serbs' centuries-long, often brutal subjugation and occupation by Turkish invaders, now sometimes used as a justification for Serbian nationalism and retribution against Bosnian Muslims.
GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA: THE POLICY OF 'ETHNIC CLEANSING'
By Norman Cigar. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995.THE BALKAN EXPRESS: FRAGMENTS FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF WAR
By Slavenka Drakulic. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.HABITS OF THE BALKAN HEART: SOCIAL CHARACTER AND THE FALL OF COMMUNISM
By Stjepan G. Mestrovic, with Slaven Letica and Miroslav Goreta. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993.SUMMER IN THE BALKANS: LAUGHTER AND TEARS AFTER COMMUNISM
By Randall Baker. West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 1994.THE IMPOSSIBLE COUNTRY: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE LAST DAYS OF YUGOSLAVIA.
By Brian Hall. London: Secker & Warburg, 1994.A PAPER HOUSE: THE ENDING OF YUGOSLAVIA
By Mark Thompson. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
SARAJEVO: EXODUS OF A CITY
By Dzevad Karahasan. New York: Kodansha America, 1994.SARAJEVO: A PORTRAIT OF THE SIEGE
Essays and Photos. New York: Warner Books, 1994.BROKEN BONDS: YUGOSLAVIA'S DISINTEGRATION AND BALKAN POLITICS IN TRANSITION
By Lenard J. Cohen. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995. (Second edition.)THE BALKANIZATION OF THE WEST
By Stjepan G. Mestrovic. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.MASS RAPE: THE WAR AGAINST WOMEN IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
Edited by Alexandra Stiglmayer. Foreword by Roy Gutman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: A TRADITION BETRAYED
By Robert J. Donia and John V.A. Fine, Jr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.ISLAM UNDER THE DOUBLE EAGLE: THE MUSLIMS OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 1878-1914
By Robert J. Donia. Boulder: East European Quarterly, distributed by Columbia University Press, 1981HISTORY OF THE BALKANS
Vol. 1, 18th and 19th Century; Vol. 2, 20th Century
By Barbara Jelavich. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.SERBS AND CROATS; THE STRUGGLE IN YUGOSLAVIA
By Alex N. Dragnich. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.ZLATA'S DIARY: A CHILD'S LIFE IN SARAJEVO (Journal de Zlata.)
By Zlata Filipovic. New York: Viking, 1994.EUROPEAN MOSLEMS: ECONOMY AND ETHNICITY IN WESTERN BOSNIA
By William G. Lockwood. New York: Academic Press, 1975.BALKAN GHOSTS: A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY
By Robert D. Kaplan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.THE ROAD FROM PARADISE: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRACY IN EASTERN EUROPE
By Stjepan G. Mestrovic, with Miroslav Goreta and Slaven Letica. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993.BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA
By Rebecca West. New York: Viking Press, 1956.A vast, detailed, insightful memoir compiled during a lifelong love affair with the area, considered definitive for the time.
BALKAN BABEL: THE DISINTEGRATION OF YUGOSLAVIA FROM THE DEATH OF TITO TO ETHNIC WAR
By Sabrina Petra Ramet. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. (Second edition.)DESTRUCTION OF YUGOSLAVIA: TRACKING THE BREAKUP 1980-92
By Branka Magas. London and New York: Verso, 1993.ETHNIC NATIONALISM: THE TRAGIC DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA
By Bogdan Denitch. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.A SHORT HISTORY OF THE YUGOSLAV PEOPLES
By Fred Singleton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.MY NATIVE LAND
By Louis Adamic (1899-1951). New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1943.THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN YUGOSLAVIA: ORIGINS, HISTORY AND POLITICS
By Ivo Banac. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984.A LONG ROW OF CANDLES: MEMOIRS AND DIARIES, 1934-1954
By C.L. Sulzberger. New York: Macmillan, 1969."Go to the Balkans, Cyrus. That will be the most interesting place." Heeding the advice of a Czech head of state, Sulzberger embarked on a decades-long exploration of the region and was invariably the on-site chronicler of European history in the making. Substantial sections of this journalist's memoirs deal in detail with the former Yugoslavia. "For that was a fine time and a fine place to be," Sulzberger writes in his introduction.
Annotated by Norman Green. Additional source: "Balkan Booklist" from the Lasiewicz Foundation.
