Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood, (Paperback)

from kraaivrouw

The Bosnian war is sort of a blur to me. I was directing theater and managing bands for most of the 1990's. This meant living on 2-3 hours of sleep and very little in the way of news or television. When you live in those worlds many things become a blip on the radar - you flag them in your head -...

from BridgetMary

A surprisingly relatable book for such a foregin subject matter. Before reading this book, I knew little about the Sarajevo crisis. However, the personal accounts provided by Demick made this ignorance completely irrelevant in reading the book. Demick does an excellent job of explaining the confl...

from TadAD

The subject is the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War of the early 1990s. Barbara Demick uses Logavina Street as an example that illustrates the whole to show you what life in Sarajevo was like during that period: the starvation, the freezing and, most of all, the constant death toll and en...

from xrayedgrl

This was a riveting account of a difficult time in the life of Bosnia. The author did an excellent job of bringing the reader into the lives of just a few of the many affected by civil war and strife. It is really inconcievable to those of us in the US to know what its like to live in a war torn ...

from skf

Those of us who can remember hearing snippets on the news about the "Balkan War" in the early 90s heard the name "Sarajevo" often. At that time the only thing I remembered about Sarajevo was that the the 1984 Winter Olympics had been held there. The whys and wherefores of this war that happened i...