Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West - Couverture souple

Rieff, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099478315 ISBN 13 : 9780099478317

Editeur : Vintage, 1995

Synopsis

Reporting from the Bosnian war zone, American author David Rieff indicts the West and the UN for standing by at the annihilation. Travelling extensively in Bosnia for more than two years, he made his way from Sarajevo to the other besieged cities and villages, and like the European Bosnians he could not believe, at first, what he was witnessing - a genocidal war. In this book he dissects the failures of the UN and the West as he talks with the officials and the people at the heart of the tragedy.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations for standing by and doing nothing to stop the genocide of the Bosnian Muslims. Slaughterhouse is the definitive explanation of a war that will be remembered as the greatest failure of Western diplomacy since the 1930s.
Bosnia was more than a human tragedy. It was the emblem of the international community's failure and confusion in the post-Cold War era. In Bosnia, genocide and ethnic fascism reappeared in Europe for the first time in fifty years. But there was no will to confront them, either on the part of the United States, Western Europe, or the United Nations, for which the Bosnian experience was as catastrophic and demoralizing as Vietnam was for the United States. It is the failure and its implications that Rieff anatomizes in this unforgiving account of a war that might have been prevented and could have been stopped.

Revue de presse

The Advocate Rieff writes with a knowledge so thorough, an intelligence so keen, a passion so scalding, and a morality so vigorous, that one cannot come away from reading this without despair for mankind.

Ronald Steel An acute and impassioned observer, David Rieff relates the tragedy of Bosnia with fire and anger.

Anthony Lewis The New Republic An epitaph for Bosnia, or for us. I do not think anyone should be able to read this book without pain and anger.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099478315
• ISBN 13: 9780099478317
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible