Bosnia's Million Bones : Solving the World's Greatest Forensic Puzzle (Hardcover)

from jeanie1

This is the story of human identification - pieces of humans, spread throught many graves. This is the story of how a group of scientists founded the ICMP The International Commission on Missing Persons - helping Bosnians identfy their husbands, sons, brothers and fathers. This is the story how t...

from arelenriel

This book presents a rather horrifying picture of the conflict between Serbia and Bosnia. That being said there were several problems with this book overall. One major issue for me was the lack of flow in the writing. Chapters seemed disjointed and disorganized and the overall structure and organ...

from watson0717

I really wanted to love this book, but for someone who was rather ignorant of the Bosnian War this was not a good place to start. Don't get me wrong, the content was fascinating and I did learn a lot, but I was often confused by the disjointed stories. I understand that I received an uncorrected ...

from thornton37814

Journalist Christian Jennings has documented the Yugoslav War from 1991-1995 and the acts of genocide committed by Serbian leaders and their troops toward the conclusion of that war. They attempted to hide the bodies in mass graves, often burying individuals in more than one. A group of forensic ...

from acornell

I am not sure why I bid on this book as reading about mass genocide is never my cup of tea. That being said, this was a fascinating look at a huge forensic puzzle. one which history buffs will enjoy reading. I had a hard time getting past the vast inhumanity and putrefying corpses to focus exclus...