num_pages: 440
description: Journalist David Rohde was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his reporting on the Bosnian city of Srebrenica. After the United Nations' "safe haven" fell, Rohde investigated reports of massacres, and was arrested by Bosnian Serbs while investigating mass graves near the town. In End Game , Rohde tells the entire story of the fall of Srebrenica, in which 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed, making it the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. Rohde's reporting is prodigious, and as the narrative progresses the book picks up power as a series of events, presented in a matter-of-fact manner, come together and the reader sees how a village was obliterated, with many of its inhabitants killed and hidden in mass graves. The book is disturbing, particularly because Rohde calmly shows how the horrors of Srebrenica could have been avoided. The conflict in Bosnia has perhaps been a puzzle to many, and this book will do much to give the horrors a human face.
language: English
title: A Safe Area: Srebrenica: Europe's Worst Massacre Since the Holocaust
titlecomplete: A Safe Area: Srebrenica: Europe's Worst Massacre Since the Holocaust
genres: Historical, History, European History, War, School, Journalism, Crime, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 406
publisher: Simon & Schuster (Trade Division)