1992 Yugoslav federation
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Against Stranger
Author_Janine di Giovanni
Autobiography of reporter
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Cities and villages
Compelling clear eye clarity
Daily Telegraph book of the year
Devastating impact of Balkan wars
Economist
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Evening Standard
Extremes of life pacy
Ghosts by Daylight
Gripping biography and memoir
Human reality
Independence insurgency
Jane de Giovani
Journalists and memories
Place at End World
Quick Dead
Redemption fear loss
Reportage journalism
Torn long term
Wartime aftermath
Years recovering after trauma
Young youth in Sarajevo
Yugoslav Yugoslavia
Product details
- ISBN 9780747568681
- Weight: 247g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2005
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘A moving book by one of our generation's finest foreign correspondents' - Daily Telegraph
‘A terrifying account, soberly written ... Presents a stunning portrait of the anarchy, cruelty and overwhelming confusion of contemporary wars' - Independent
‘Janine di Giovanni is superb - an extraordinarily brave war correspondent and a wonderful writer as well. What a combination!' - William Shawcross
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The remarkable story of a woman on the frontline giving an extraordinary, personal account of the Balkan wars
Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the 1990s observing the cycles of violence and vengeance from inside Balkan cities and villages, refugee camps and makeshift hospitals. This was a conflict that raised challenging questions: what causes neighbours, whose families have lived peacefully for centuries, to turn with mindless brutality against one another? How do we measure the difference between bravery and cowardice in a conflict so morally ill-defined? What becomes of survivors when the fabric of an age-old community is destroyed?
Searching for answers, di Giovanni brings the reality of war into focus: children dying from lack of medicine, women driven to despair and madness by their experiences in paramilitary rape camps and soldiers numbed by and inured to the atrocities they committed. In Madness Visible she paints an indelible portrait of the Balkans under siege and shows the true - human - cost of war.
Janine di Giovanni is senior foreign correspondent for The Times and contributing editor for Vanity Fair. She has won Granada Television's 'Foreign Correspondent of the Year' award, the National Magazine Award and two Amnesty International Media Awards. Author of Against the Stranger and The Quick and the Dead, she wrote the introduction to the bestselling Zlata's Diary. Janine di Giovanni lives in London and West Africa.
