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  • Witness to War Crimes

    The Memoirs of a Peacekeeper in Bosnia

    by Colm Doyle ...
    The early 1990s saw Europes first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Army found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when in October 1991 he became first a European Community Monitor and almost immediately Head of the Monitor Mission in besieged Sarajevo. After six months he was appointed Personal ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Long Winter

    by Colm Toibin ...
    Narrated by Gerard Doyle ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours

    Available for the first time in a beautiful stand-alone edition, one of Colm Tóibín’s finest short stories and “the most striking example of Tóibín**’s emotional control” (The Guardian). A Long Winter is set in the mountains of Catalonia in Spain—this edition includes a new afterword by the author on how he came to write the story.**A young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    New Ways to Kill Your Mother

    Writers and Their Families

    by Colm Toibin ...
    Narrated by Gerard Doyle ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 38 min

    Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín provides “a fascinating exploration of writers and their families” (Entertainment Weekly) and “an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires” (The Evening Standard) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work.Colm Tóibín—celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Black Dogs

    by Ian McEwan ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Booker Prize, Ian McEwan is one of the most highly regarded contemporary authors in the English language. A fictional memoir set in late 1980s Europe, Black Dogs contemplates individuals responding to vast impersonal forces. Orphaned at the age of eight, Jeremy finds the course of his life transient and groundless until he marries and begins writing a memoir ... Read more

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    Gilgamesh

    A New English Version

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    This brilliant new treatment of the oldest epic in the world is a literary event. Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell breathes life into a 3,700-year-old classic, delivering a lithe and muscular rendering that shows how startlingly alive Gilgamesh is, how filled with intelligence and beauty. It is the story of literature's first hero, an historical king of Uruk in ... Read more

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  • Natasha's Story: Michael Nicholson Rescued A 9-Year Old Orphan From Sarajevo

    News correspondent Michael Nicholson went to Sarajevo to report on the horrors of the Bosnian War, but ended up smuggling one little girl away from the carnage.Natasha’s Story is the heart-wrenching account of how the TV reporter risked everything to bring a nine-year-old orphan home with him, and gave her a new life 1,000 miles from her native land.The true story, which went on to become the ... Read more

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  • To End a War

    The Conflict in Yugoslavia--America's Inside Story--Negotiating with Milosevic

    When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.As passionate as he was controversial, Holbrooke believed that the only way to bring peace to the Balkans ... Read more

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  • War Hospital

    A True Story Of Surgery And Survival

    In April 1992, a handful of young physicians, not one of them a surgeon, was trapped along with 50,000 men, women, and children in the embattled enclave of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. There the doctors faced the most intense professional, ethical, and personal predicaments of their lives.Drawing on extensive interviews, documents, and recorded materials she collected over four and a half years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lion, the Fox and the Eagle

    A Story of Generals and Justice in Rwanda and Yugoslavia

    by Carol Off ...
    Three Canadians – Lewis MacKenzie, Romeo Dallaire and Louise Arbour – were at the centre of the two greatest tragedies of the 1990s. Two of them could have stopped the killing. One was asked to bring the perpetrators to justice. In this riveting, original and explosive book, Carol Off explores the failure of peacekeeping missions in Sarajevo and Rwanda, and the international community’s attempt to ... Read more

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  • The Butcher's Trail

    How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt

    by Julian Borger ...
    **A “riveting and important” story of heroism and justice: How—and against what odds—the perpetrators of Balkan genocide were captured by the most successful manhunt in history (TIME)“. . . adds greatly to our understanding of how international criminal justice has evolved and offers lessons for future war crimes investigations.” —Newsweek**Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher’s ... Read more

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  • In Harm's Way

    Bosnia: A War Reporter's Story

    by Martin Bell ...
    Martin Bell's was BBC TV's principal correspondent during the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995. The original version of this passionate and personal account of the conflict was written while the war was still going on, some of it late at night in the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo.In Harm's Way is not only about the progress of the war; it is about its origins, how it began and how it could have been ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus