Book description
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Searching for answers, di Giovanni brings the reality of war into
focus: children dying from lack of medicine, women driven to despair
and madness by their experiences in paramilitary rape camps and
soldiers numbed by and inured to the atrocities they committed. In
Madness Visible she paints an indelible portrait of the
Balkans under siege and shows the true - human - cost of war.
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Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the
1990s observing the cycles of violence and vengeance from inside
Balkan cities and villages, refugee camps and makeshift hospitals.
This was a conflict that raised challenging questions: what causes
neighbours, whose families have lived peacefully for centuries, to
turn with mindless brutality against one another? How do we measure
the difference between bravery and cowardice in a conflict so morally
ill-defined? What becomes of survivors when the fabric of an age-old
community is destroyed? <
'A terrifying account, soberly written ... Presents
a stunning portrait of the anarchy, cruelty and overwhelming
confusion of contemporary wars' Independent 'Janine di Giovanni is
superb - an extraordinarily brave war correspondent and a wonderful
writer as well. What a combination!' William Shawcross 'A moving
book by one of our generation's finest foreign correspondents ...
some of the stories are so tragic that they are hard to get through
... excellent' Daily Telegraph 'Always compassionate, never
sentimental, di Giovanni gives voice to the victims, perpetrators
and architects of the conflict' Marie Claire
P>
Searching for answers, di Giovanni brings the reality of war into
focus: children dying from lack of medicine, women driven to despair
and madness by their experiences in paramilitary rape camps and
soldiers numbed by and inured to the atrocities they committed. In
Madness Visible she paints an indelible portrait of the
Balkans under siege and shows the true - human - cost of war.
>
Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the
1990s observing the cycles of violence and vengeance from inside
Balkan cities and villages, refugee camps and makeshift hospitals.
This was a conflict that raised challenging questions: what causes
neighbours, whose families have lived peacefully for centuries, to
turn with mindless brutality against one another? How do we measure
the difference between bravery and cowardice in a conflict so morally
ill-defined? What becomes of survivors when the fabric of an age-old
community is destroyed? <
