One woman's war
By: Eve-Ann Prentice.
Publisher: Duck Editions
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Prentice, Eve-Ann.; War correspondents -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Kosovo (Serbia) -- History -- Civil War, 1998-1999 -- Personal narratives, British.
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives, British.
Description: "Eve-Ann Prentice gives her personal testimonial of the complicated and often misunderstood war in the Balkans. Having over the past fifteen years become one of the region's most experienced correspondents for The Times and Guardian, she takes to task the West's superficial demonisation of the Serbs. Though portrayed as a pariah state today, the country is no more a nation of rapists and murderers than it was during her first visit in 1986 when the region was a bright exception to the gloom of Eastern-Europe." "Through her portraits of Serbs of all backgrounds emerges an unusual nation with great flair: from their leaders such as the now-indicted Bosnian Serb war criminal, Radovan Karadzic, with whom she happens to share a cab ride, to the sympathetic doctor Goran Zdravkovic, who treats Eve-Ann Prentice and days later becomes a refugee, and Ivan Novkovic, a weather presenter who called for the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to resign in a rogue broadcast. In the great tradition of Michael Herr's famous record of the Vietnam war, Dispatches, Eve-Ann Prentice draws a definitive picture of the Balkan war's twisted psychology as only an expert with unparalleled contacts can hope to achieve."--Jacket.
Notes: "Life and death on deadline"--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I - Taking Sides; title: Chapter One - The Bombing: 30 May 1999; title: Chapter Two - Goran's Story: 1968-1999; title: Chapter Three - Talking 'bout My Generation: The 1960s; title: Chapter Four - First Impressions: 1986-1993; title: Chapter Five - Demonisation: 1992-1999; title: Chapter Six - Massacre: Sarajevo 1994; title: Chapter Seven - Preparing for War; title: Part II - The Kosovo Conflict; title: Chapter Eight - Bomb 'em: March 1999; title: Chapter Nine - Belgrade by Night: May 1999; title: Chapter Ten - Into the Unknown: May 1999; title: Chapter Eleven - Two Wrongs: March-May 1999; title: Chapter Twelve - Missed Again: May 1999; title: Chapter Thirteen - Kosovo's Last Days: May 1999; title: Chapter Fourteen - No Place Like Home: Serbia, June-July 1999; title: Chapter Fifteen - Resign: June-September 1999; title: Chapter Sixteen - Living Proof: August 1999; title: Chapter Seventeen - A Controversial View; title: Chapter Eighteen - Postscript: Christmas-New Year 1999-2000.