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Postcards from the Grave Paperback – 11 July 2005

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In May 1992, while Serb nationalist forces 'cleansed' the towns and villages of the Drina valley in eastern Bosnia of their formerly majority Muslim population - as part of Slobodan Milo'eviae's criminal attempt to carve an expanded Serbia from the successor states of the former Yugoslav federation - thousands of fleeing, desperate people converged on the small town of Srebrenica in search of refuge. For many of them this would prove to be a fatal decision. Serb forces besieged the town for three years, undeterred even when it was proclaimed a 'UN Safe Area'. As more and more refugees fled to Srebrenica from the surrounding villages conditions there became unbearable: near-starvation, daily death, degradation of civilized life. The victims themselves were caught up in the dialectic of violence. Finally, after three years of agony, and as those sent to protect them stood by, Srebrenica was destroyed. In just a few days in July 1995 Bosnian Serb forces murdered over 7,000 people. Against all odds Emir Suljagiae survived, while the lives of nearly every man he had ever known - and those of many women too - were wiped out. His haunted record of those terrible times offers a fitting monument to those who died.

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A beautifully turned work. He does not rant or insult; he just tells the story of Srebrenica. -- The Economist, July 9, 2005

A moving testimony of a survivor, published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. --
Bookseller

A wrenching, brutally graphic account of those years under siege. --
Metro, July 13, 2005

Just to bear witness would be enough but Suljagic writes with the skill of an accomplished novelist. --
The Observer, July 3, 2005

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Saqi Books; First Edition (11 July 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 196 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0863565190
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0863565199
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.46 x 1.27 x 21.08 cm
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rpsjdd
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time
Reviewed in the United States on 15 September 2011
This book is poorly structured with a heavy bias on Bosnian emotion and also has factual concerns about most events he "witnessed" or "heard". Alot of his stories I believe are more rumour mill stuff than fact, given he was 17 at the time I wouldn't be surprised.

His hatred of serbs is plain to see and this inevitably impairs the quality of the book. He knows much more than he is willing to tell but only wants to harp over how good and innocent the Bosnians were whilst it was the serbs who did all the butchering. It is a book written from a narrow and selective memory and should be taken lighlty if only the subject matter wasn't so serious.

Throw it away. A much better read (with facts) is Honig and Both's Srebrenica:Record of a war crime.
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