Bosnia and Herzegovina Reading

TransConflict recommends the following books for those interested in learning more about the history, culture and politics of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Literature and First-Hand Accounts

Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia – by Savo Heleta
Bridge Over The Drina – by Ivo Andric
Sarajevo Marlboro – by Miljenko Jergovic
Bosnian Chronicle – by Ivo Andric
The Question of Bruno – by Aleksandar Hemon
Sarajevo Blues – by Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Zlata’s Diary – by Zlata Filipovic
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 – by Joe Sacco



Academic and Policy-Oriented

Bosnia: A Short History – by Noel Malcolm
Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal
– by Gerard Toal
Sarajevo: Biography of a City
– by Robert J. Donia
Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International InterventionBosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention
– by Sumantra Bose
State Building and International Intervention in Bosnia (Security and Governance)
– by Roberto Belloni
Bosnia’s Paralysed Peace
– by Christopher Bennett
Peace without Politics?: Ten Years of State-building in Bosnia (Cass Series on Peacekeeping)
– by David Chandler
The Ethics of Researching War:Looking for Bosnia (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis): Looking for Bosnia (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis): … Bosnia (New Approaches to Conflict Analysis)
– by Elizabeth Dauphinee
The Democratization Process in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Role of the European Union (Democracy, Security, Peace)
– by Lejla Starcevic-Srkalovic

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