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natalia71091's review against another edition
5.0
This book is as gruesome as it necessary. Sarajevo is one of my favorite places to be in the world and this book tells the story of its most depressing era. And it's tough and fascinating. Sidenote: how the UN could f*** up so hard is beyond me.
sam_griffin's review against another edition
4.0
3.5/5
Could be that I haven't slept well in... months, but could not keep up with the names, so just was like, oh that happened to a person. Oh, that also has happened. That's on me though.
Could be that I haven't slept well in... months, but could not keep up with the names, so just was like, oh that happened to a person. Oh, that also has happened. That's on me though.
amrap's review against another edition
5.0
In this book Demick profiles the residents of Sarajevo during the Balkan War of 1992-1995 and shows what daily life is like when you live a medieval life under siege without electricity or food in a modern European city. She captures the sense of isolation and disbelief that the residents feel, the way that they adapt and survive with shelling and snipers, and the aftermath of the war that ended effectively in a stalemate, leaving Bosnia partitioned and with an ineffective government structure. I've been reading books set during the war and there were questions that I wanted answers to: how did they cook, how did they bathe, how did they live. Demick captures the minutia of the day to day, even including recipes that one of the residents created to use food rations. A great read that really brings to life what it is like to live in a besieged city in war.
cherbear's review against another edition
4.0
I always find the stories of how people live their daily lives during terrible times like war particularly interesting and this was no exception.
cdcsmith's review against another edition
5.0
Easy stuff first. I received this free from a Goodreads giveaway.
Oh boy. I've had a facination about this subject since early 1993. Very pregnant with my 2nd child, I watched a news blurb on one of the VERY early news shows (I think it was World New Now). A woman, also very pregnant, was telling her story and I was in tears trying to imagine myself in the same situation.
This was a fast read and I felt intensely for each person who was interviewed. I felt for the journalist writing the stories. Sad. Beyond sad. Gut wrenching. The stories were told very well. I felt like I was watching a movie in some respects. I suspect my dreams tonight will not be pleasant, but sometimes that isn't a bad thing. I told my 19 year old that he has to read it this week. I want to discuss with him the war that took place and get a feel of what he gets from it. I have a feeling this one gets glossed over if spoken of at all. To me, this war maybe more important to talk about given the way it seems the city was before, the war, and how it is now.
Oh boy. I've had a facination about this subject since early 1993. Very pregnant with my 2nd child, I watched a news blurb on one of the VERY early news shows (I think it was World New Now). A woman, also very pregnant, was telling her story and I was in tears trying to imagine myself in the same situation.
This was a fast read and I felt intensely for each person who was interviewed. I felt for the journalist writing the stories. Sad. Beyond sad. Gut wrenching. The stories were told very well. I felt like I was watching a movie in some respects. I suspect my dreams tonight will not be pleasant, but sometimes that isn't a bad thing. I told my 19 year old that he has to read it this week. I want to discuss with him the war that took place and get a feel of what he gets from it. I have a feeling this one gets glossed over if spoken of at all. To me, this war maybe more important to talk about given the way it seems the city was before, the war, and how it is now.
18thstjoe's review against another edition
4.0
I thought it was going to be grimmer, more like the game "This War of Mine", still a very interesting read
kellyd's review against another edition
4.0
Sadly, like most Americans, I’m pretty ignorant about the Bosnian conflict. This should be a must read.
lnatal's review
3.0
From BBC Radio 4:
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo the award winning journalist Barbara Demick revisits her evocative eyewitness account of how the residents of one street in the city endured three and half years of living in a war zone.
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo the award winning journalist Barbara Demick revisits her evocative eyewitness account of how the residents of one street in the city endured three and half years of living in a war zone.
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