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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The Sarajevo newspaper Oslobodjenje managed to publish daily throughout the first two years of the Bosnian Serb siege despite intermittent lack of electricity, water and fuel?not to mention the incessant bombardment and sniper fire that accounted for some 6000 deaths in the city in 1992-1993. Artillery shells tore the newspaper building apart floor by floor until it collapsed; the staff then moved to underground rooms originally intended as atomic bomb shelters. Gjelten's account of Oslobodjenje's fight to stay alive is a perfect metaphor of the struggle of a sophisticated European city to retain its multiethnic character even as it is being turned into "a great prison, a place of torture and deprivation." The newspaper's staff represents a genuinely multicultural model of life and work, demonstrating that it was still possible to work together in harmony. Gjelten, who won the George Polk Award for excellence in overseas reporting, has covered the war in the former Yugoslavia for National Public Radio since 1991. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The struggle of the staff of the daily Sarajevo newspaper Oslobodjenje ("Liberation") to continue publishing during the prolonged siege is here presented as a metaphor for the struggles of the entire city. The ethnically mixed staff had always worked well together, and, with few exceptions, continued to do so, despite rising levels of ethnic animosity around them. Publishing a 15th anniversary issue in August 1993 was the goal that kept the staff focused despite their difficulties: newsprint was delivered as humanitarian aid; electricity to run the presses was unreliable, but diesel fuel to run a generator was expensive; when the building was shelled, they moved to the basement. Gjelten heard their stories during several visits to Sarajevo in 1991-94 as National Public Radio's Berlin-based correspondent covering the Yugoslav conflicts. A well-drawn portrait of determination in the face of adversity. Recommended for most collections.
Marcia L. Sprules, Council on Foreign Relations Lib., New York
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The Sarajevo newspaper Oslobodjenje managed to publish daily throughout the first two years of the Bosnian Serb siege despite intermittent lack of electricity, water and fuel?not to mention the incessant bombardment and sniper fire that accounted for some 6000 deaths in the city in 1992-1993. Artillery shells tore the newspaper building apart floor by floor until it collapsed; the staff then moved to underground rooms originally intended as atomic bomb shelters. Gjelten's account of Oslobodjenje's fight to stay alive is a perfect metaphor of the struggle of a sophisticated European city to retain its multiethnic character even as it is being turned into "a great prison, a place of torture and deprivation." The newspaper's staff represents a genuinely multicultural model of life and work, demonstrating that it was still possible to work together in harmony. Gjelten, who won the George Polk Award for excellence in overseas reporting, has covered the war in the former Yugoslavia for National Public Radio since 1991. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The struggle of the staff of the daily Sarajevo newspaper Oslobodjenje ("Liberation") to continue publishing during the prolonged siege is here presented as a metaphor for the struggles of the entire city. The ethnically mixed staff had always worked well together, and, with few exceptions, continued to do so, despite rising levels of ethnic animosity around them. Publishing a 15th anniversary issue in August 1993 was the goal that kept the staff focused despite their difficulties: newsprint was delivered as humanitarian aid; electricity to run the presses was unreliable, but diesel fuel to run a generator was expensive; when the building was shelled, they moved to the basement. Gjelten heard their stories during several visits to Sarajevo in 1991-94 as National Public Radio's Berlin-based correspondent covering the Yugoslav conflicts. A well-drawn portrait of determination in the face of adversity. Recommended for most collections.
Marcia L. Sprules, Council on Foreign Relations Lib., New York
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War by Peter Maass in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- When History Is a Nightmare : Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Stevan M. Weine in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia From the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic by Sabrina Petra Ramet on page 242
- Hearts Grown Brutal : Sagas of Sarajevo by Roger Cohen in Back Matter
- A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power in Back Matter
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