Besieged
Subtitle: life under fire on a Sarajevo street
By: Barbara Demick ; photographs by John Costello
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781847084118
Subjects: War and society; Social conditions; Personal narratives; History
Description: For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a cosmopolitan city, home to Muslims and Christians, Serbs and Croats. Then the war tore the street apart. In this extraordinary eyewitness account, Demick weaves together the stories of ten families from Logavina Street.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-253).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.Denial; title: 2.Orphans of War; title: 3.A Death in the Family; title: 4.Wizards of Invention; title: 5.Serbs, Croats and Muslims; title: 6.Coming of Age; title: 7.Resistance I: The Army; title: 8.Resistance II: Civilians; title: 9.Awakening; title: 10.Betrayal; title: 11.Escape; title: 12.Intervention; title: 13.Return to Logavina Street.