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The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: the Reckoning Kindle Edition

by Ed Vulliamy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives of those who survived the gulag of concentration camps in north-western Bosnia and about seeking justice for Bosnia today.

But justice is not Reckoning. The book finds that the survivors are lost not only geographically, but in history – betrayed in war, and also in peace.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0080GV1ZE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Digital (April 30, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 30, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3637 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 444 pages

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t duffy

Incredible account of the 1992+ war in Yugoslavia, the ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015

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Incredible account of the 1992+ war in Yugoslavia, the displacement and genocide of non Serbian populations by the Bosnian Serbs and how this has been viewed and promoted by the larger state and international communities (equal cruelty enacted by factions). The author gives a first hand account of the concentration camps, mass murders and and horrifying brutality of the Serbs, including interviews with the perpetrators as well as victims. The heart of the book is a 20 year follow-up of victims & their families over a period of 20 years and a focus on the importance of a reckoning, which acknowledges and memorializes what happened. It is author Ed Vulliamy's narratives--stories about and dialogues with people, along with his personal commentary and thoughtful actions, that enliven the account and make it bearable.

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Ross Rutherford

Vulliamy does a wonderful job of showing not simply the horrors of the ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2014

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Vulliamy does a wonderful job of showing not simply the horrors of the war and the camps in Bosnia, but more importantly the lack of healing and reconciliation between the various ethnicities some 20 years later. The real horror perpetrated on Bosnia and its people is that done by its leaders in the name of personal power. It is a reminder that "never again" is a lie if we do not act decisively in the name of peace instead of standing by passively hoping the worst doesn't happen.

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Alan May

This is a bitterly harsh book to read through. ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2018

This is a bitterly harsh book to read through. Yet what it presents has you reading it to the very end. Often at the end of conflict, with the apparatus in place for eventual progress to be made, a lot of resentment is still latent or really, in your face. In this case, the balkan conflict amongst the most shudder-inducing in recent memory, ensured that much of the work still remained to be done. Yet remarkably so, Ed Vullamy presents a case where this just isn't so. The people of the Balkans coming along it seems, under fear of retribution for not progressing. It implies a long historical connection with the former Ottoman Empire mixed with the Balkan attitude while being near Greece and Italy. Can do seems to be the word of the game. Mr. Vullamy as equally stupefied at the reader at how the Balkans has moved on after the Yugoslavian Civil War.

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lindyl

20 years after the event - a good read

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2013

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This was the book I had been waiting to find after having read many books on the actual war period between 1992 and 1995. I wanted to know what things were like many years down the track - how and if the re- integration had occurred and if there had been any successful indictment of war criminals. Well written and easy to read.

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Every citizen of European countries, the USA, UK ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2014

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Every citizen of European countries, the USA, UK and Australia should read this book. Ed Vulliamy's commitment to this story and the people involved is laudable; he has helped to give them a voice.

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Leila

Excellent and comprehensive analysis of war, post-conflict society and art of survival

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2013

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This is a must-read for anybody interested in history of Bosnia-Herzegovina and anyone researching post-conflict processes. Also, all Bosnians should read it too, it contains valuable lessons for all who want to move this country forward

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imran Khurram

Furthermore the book reveals a malicious media campaign to discredit the victims of the war when the Serbian atrocities like Srebrenica were highlighted by the western media

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017

A horrifying narrative of the horrifying ethnic cleansing committed by the Serbs together with the Croats against the hapless Bosnians. The narrative a first hand account of the war in the Balkans reveals the secret collaboration between the Serbs and Croats. Furthermore the book reveals a malicious media campaign to discredit the victims of the war when the Serbian atrocities like Srebrenica were highlighted by the western media. The world powers effectively failed to impose peace in the Balkans. Marred by their collective guilt they ultimately tried to make amends for their ineffectiveness by making concrete efforts to impose lasting peace in Kosovo conflict in 1998-1999. The scars of this ethnic cleansing will remain itched in the memories of survivors who felt that the world powers acted too late when the major damage had been done.

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Anonymous

Absolutely AMAZING!

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2012

This is a brilliant, raw and chilling book that does what so many other books about the war in Bosnia do not - tell it like it is! It doesn't tip-toe around the truth. It is in your face honesty.

It is difficult for many to fathom the filthy lies and the denial in the face of hard evidence that is presented time and time again. Ed Vulliamy takes us on a journey that exposes the lies and the absolute bullsh*t that is peddled by a large proportion of Serbs (both in RS and in Serbia) and their sympathisers (including the revisionists).

There are still so many unanswered questions. So many challenges ahead.

This book is simply a MUST read!

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John Franklin

As advertised

Reviewed in Canada on March 28, 2019

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Exactly what I was looking for

JuliaC

Harrowing and brave account of Bosnia after the war demands to be read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2012

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Some books we read for pleasure and amusement, and some to gain insight and knowledge. Some books we feel we should read, but there are some books that we simply must read. Journalist Ed Vulliamy's harrowing and jaw dropping account of the aftermath of the Bosnian War at a distance of twenty years after is such a book.

Vulliamy tellingly compares the Bosnian context to the response of the German nation to its own shameful Nazi past, with its collective awareness of what was done, and fierce determination to remember the full horror of Hitler's 'Final Solution' for the Jewish people. Concentration camps are preserved for posterity so that future generations can bear witness to the full evil of what happened, and hopefully to help such unthinkable atrocities and barbarism from ever recurring. The rest of the world also helped with the process of rehabilitation, barely fifteen years after the end of World War II The Beatles were performing in Hamburg, and Germany has emerged as a strong and democratic nation.

This is all in stark contrast to the same period following the Bosnian conflict. And although this book is about events after the war, they cannot be recounted without making reference, in shocking detail, to some of the bone chillingly sadistic and cruel episodes which took place during it. Nazi style concentration camps sprung up, in a Western European nation which not long before had hosted the Winter Olympics, to house the 'ethnically cleansed' Bosnian Muslims after their houses were burned down and many of their number were slaughtered. Vulliamy reveals in great detail, from his own personal experience during the conflict, how the outside world at best ignored the existence of these camps, and at worst colluded in covering them up.

Rape and torture of horrific kinds were routinely committed, and many of the prisoners were forced to commit unspeakable acts on each other for the amusement of their captors. Genocide is not a word to be used lightly, but there is no other way to describe the actions of the Serbian army under President Slobodan Milosević and his henchman General Radovan Karadzić.

And all the more shocking is the failure to come to terms with what was done, despite war crimes trials in The Hague. Today Bosnian Muslims cannot grieve at national shrines and try to come to terms with what was done to them. There are no monuments - the Serbians won't agree to them being built, and anyway many of the more barbarous acts are denied, despite the evidence of thousands of Bosnian Muslim bodies being painstakingly sifted through to be able to give their remaining families some way of mourning them. And woman have to face their rapists across the street every day, either having served a short term in jail, or many going unpunished for their crimes.

But aside from these frankly deeply depressing realities, the stories of the people that Vulliamy has come to know are brilliant reminders of how such conflict touches families and individuals, as well as nations. One particularly heart-warming detail is that of the Manchester City star striker Edin Dzeko, who is nothing short of a Bosnian national hero for his fierce pride in his nation and refusal to adopt citizenship of other much more glamorous footballing nations when he had the chance. As a City fan myself, it is pleasing to know that some of our pampered stars have principles and loyalty that have nothing to do with riches, and that such qualities cannot be bought.

Vulliamy's own part in helping to publicise the existence of the concentration camps, and in acting as a witness in The Hague is distinguished and to be applauded. As is his determination to continue to make the world sit up and take note of what is still happening today through this brilliant and brave book. It frankly demands to be read.

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fergus

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2013

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This is a very powerful and vital book. I served 2 tours of Bosnia - although this was under SFOR. I felt a strong sense of shame as to what happened and was shocked to discover people peddling the twisted logic of 'equal equivalence'. Indeed I have met both British and Americans who were ill informed or who after 9/11 seem to think that the Serb war against Muslims was in some way vindicated. Manjaca concentration camp was in our AO and I have been to it (after it became a RS Army camp), but it's history was never part of our briefing. This was clearly a war against civilians and how the west never understood this is beyond me. Indeed liberalism in its twisted form led to reasonable behaviour to all sides including the perpetrators. I joined the Army to 'defend' the flock not to invade other countries - so how we could justify the invasion of Iraq but not intervention in Bosnia or Rwanda is beyond me.

This is a very powerful book and Ed Vulliamy covers all aspects of post-conflict aftermath. It is very sad at times and I still feel ashamed at our conduct. I can vouch for the ongoing problems of return for displaced persons and the continuing hostility of the RS to these people. The end of wars are always messy and Vulliamy shows this hidden pain.

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Ofratko

Forgotten war

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2012

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I have the feeling that the war in Bosnia have been forgotten by most of the world. This book helps remembering what happened in this beautiful country 20 years ago. It doesn't help understand because I don't think this would be possible.I have been in Bosnia and tried really hard to comprehend what madness made people do what they did. How can neighbor turn against neighbor after decades of harmony. Or maybe it wasn't so happy and harmonious as everybody thought. This book is in fact a memorial to Bosnian Muslims murdered,tortured and raped in the war as they can't build proper memorial in the places where these unspeakable crimes happened to them. It's an angry book. You ca feel it from the words. Mr. Vulliamy is angry and desperate And he should be. People still haven't received justice and the society is deeply divided. I was told by many people in Bosnia that they think that Bosnia is a test. EU and US want to know how long will it take for Bosnians to start killing each other again.That living like they are living now in two entities with politicians preaching nationalistic hate and people losing hope will create war again.

I took one star off cause this book made the entire Serbian people look like war criminals. And yes some of them did commit horrible crimes but it is not correct to judge entire nation in this light. It will take some time for Serbs to come to terms with what these animals did in their name. They are the most important part of the puzzle in Bosnia. The reconciliation can't be done without them.

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Christopher

Exposing a huge ignorance, very powerful to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2012

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I was a teenager in Britain when the Bosnian war happened and confess that most of it passed me by with a vague memory about the siege of Sarejevo. Yet this book tells the personal stories, including that of the author that make for a very difficult read - at the same time unable to put the book down. In my lifetime and just 7 years before my son was born and 5 before before my daughter - there were atrocities of a truly staggering nature happening right on our doorstep. Our neighbours were being slaughtered and we failed to see. Worse still, the suffering continues every day as both neighbours, those directly from Bosnia and Herzegovina and from around Europe fail to recognise the horrors of the past and therefore prevent any form of reconciliation. I believe this book should be compulsory reading for our teenage children, lest they ever believe such things couldn't happen in their lifetime. Thank you Ed for writing this book.

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