Butcher, Tim

Summary: "On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip, started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Vacationing journalists try to track down a missing war criminal in one of Eastern Europe's deadliest regions. What begins as an impulsive reporting adventure immediately turns dangerous, as hostile locals, shady underworld figures and a case of mistaken identity put them squarely in their target's crosshairs. Amid the bullets and bombs, they discover that getting the scoop is one thing--...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008

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Jones, Lynne.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2004

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Cohen, Roger.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998

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Fink, Sheri.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2003

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O'Grady, Scott.

Summary: True story of how O'Grady managed to live through a missile impact at 27,000 feet, the techniques he used to survive in a barren and hostile landscape, and the real story behind the daring daylight resuce mission carried out by the U.S. Marines.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995

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Rieff, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995

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Fesperman, Dan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 1999

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Kubert, Joe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 1996

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Sacco, Joe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2003

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Campbell, Greg.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Westview Press 2000

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Vulliamy, Ed.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1994

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Holbrooke, Richard C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998

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Filipović, Zlata.

Summary: Growing up in Sarajevo, the only child of her parents, Zlata's life was like that of any ordinary girl her age. Soon war broke out on the streets and her world changed from that of an ordinary girl to one trapped in a war torn land. Includes color photographs reproduced from her diary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994

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Summary: A story of a sixteen-year-old boy becoming an adult in Sarajevo in the 1960s. Dino grows up with his good but ailing father and is attracted by the world of small-time crime. Then Dolly Bell, a lovely cabaret girl, turns his world upside down.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment Company 2005

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Sacco, Joe.

Contents: Šoba -- Christmas with Karadzic.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2005

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Summary: When Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac accepts a U.N. peacekeeper position in postwar Bosnia, she discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an international conspiracy that is determined to stop her, no matter the cost. With masterful acting and a heart-racing plot, an acclaimed film inspired by actual events.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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Fesperman, Dan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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Harris, Paul

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1996

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Summary: Globe Trekker Zay Harding visits the Balkan countries of former Yugoslavia: Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Starting in Kosovo, Zay explores the capital city Pristina before traveling the following day to Gazimestan, a memorial to a war that took place between Serbians and Turks in 1389. Zay moves on to Serbia to attend a traditional farming festival outside the Kalenic...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2010

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Hemon, Aleksandar

Contents: Islands -- The life and work of Alphonse Kauders -- The Sorge spy ring -- The accordion -- Exchange of pleasant words -- A coin -- Blind Josef Pronek & dead souls -- Imitation of life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2000

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Galloway, Steven

Summary: "A spare and haunting, wise and intelligent novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo is a testament to the endurance of the spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged by war." "In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window, a musician sees twenty-two of his friends and neighbors...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos Audiobooks 2010

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Galloway, Steven

Summary: While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008

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