Resources

Here's a list of resources that I've used to learn about the former Yugoslavia prior to and during my time in the Balkans.

On-line sources

Bosnian Jewry: A Small Community Meets a Unique Challenge During the 1990s War Ivan Ceresnjes, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 16, 2007. Accessed 09/09/16.

Fama Collection: Siege of Sarajevo 92-96: http://famacollection.org/eng/
An incredibly detailed multimedia website with over 500 eyewitness interviews, as well as interactive features pertaining to aspects of life during the war in Bosnia.


Jewish Heritage Sites of Bosnia-Herzegovina: U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, 2011. Accessed 09/09/16.

Non Fiction (print and digital books)

Berman, David M. The Heroes of Treca Gimnazija. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001.

Cohen, Roger. Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo. Random House, 2010.

Cory-Jones, Keith. War Dogs: British Mercenaries in Bosnia Tell Their Own Story. Cornerstone Digital, 2011.

Demick, Barbara. Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood. Spiegel & Grau, 2012 (Reprint).

Drakulic, Slavenka. Cafe Europa. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

Filipovic, Zlata. Zlata's Diary. Trans. Christina Pribichevich-Zoric. New York: Viking, 1994.

Foer, Franklin. How Soccer Explains the World. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004.

Francona, Rick. Chasing Demons-My Hunt for War Criminals in Bosnia. Francona Advisors, 2012.

Garret, Linda and Sandra Maric. Vukovar Both Sides Now. 2011.

Glenny, Misha. The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.

Gutman, Roy. A Witness to Genocide. New York: MacMillan, 1993.

Hedges, Chris. War is the Force That Gives Us Meaning. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.

Hicks, Jim. Lessons from Sarajevo. University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.

Honig, Jan Willem, and Norbert Both. Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime. New York: Penguin Books.1996.

Huntley, Paula. The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2003.

Ignatieff, Michael. Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond. New York: Picador USA, 2000.

Judah, Tim. The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Leydesdorff, Selma. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide. trans. Kay Richardson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.

Maass, Peter. Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War. New York: Vintage, 1997.

Nicholson, Michael. Welcome to Sarajevo: Natasha's Story. New York: Miramax Books, 1997.

O'Shea, Brendan. Bosnia's Forgotten Battlefield: Bihac. The History Press, 2012.

Reid, Atka and Hana Schofield. Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.

Trebincevic, Kenan and Susan Shapiro. The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return. Penguin, 2014.

Why Bosnia? eds. Rabia Ali Lawrence Lifschultz. Stony Creek: The Pamphleteer's Press, 1993.

West, Rebecca. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. New York: Penguin, 2007 (Reprint).

Fiction 

Buljusmic-Kustura, Arnesa. Letters from Diaspora. 2016.

Donovan, Gerard. Schopenhauer's Telescope. New York: Counterpoint, 2003.

Drakulic, Slavenka.  S. A Novel About the Balkans. Trans. Marko Ivic. New York: Viking, 1999.

Fesperman, Dan. Lie in the Dark. New York: Soho Press, 1999.

---.The Small Boat of Great Sorrows. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Galloway, Steven. The Cellist of Sarajevo. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Hemon, Aleksandar. The Lazarus Project. New York: Riverhead Books, 2008.

Kerr, Philip. The Lady from Zagreb. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.

Kersh, Jack. Hotel Sarajevo. New York: Turtle Point Press, 1997.

Marks, John. War Torn. New York; Riverhead Books, 2003.

Novic, Sara. Girl at War. New York: Random House, 2015.

Obreht, Tea. The Tiger's Wife. New York: Random House, 2011.

Palmer, Matthew. The Wolf of Sarajevo. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2016.

Simon, Scott. Pretty Birds. New York: Random House, 2005.