Summary
Nenad Ivanković: Bloody Land: About the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Among the numerous reporting and memoir books about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the work of the Croatian publicist Nenad Ivanković "Bloody Land" stands out for its layers, abundance of material, and reflections based on the author's passionate desire to get to the "roots" of conflict and war, mainly on the ethno-psychological, but also strategic-political level. Richer and more readable than similar works, "Bloody Land", which the author does not hide, is a Croatian view of the events of that war, and exclusively of the parts of the battlefield in which the Croats participated.
Ivanković visited the battlefields he writes about, talked to hundreds of people, reviewed and studied thousands of pages of intelligence services. The book is organized in an overview, by battlefields from Kupres to Herzegovina; each chapter has the author's commentary, which contains a breakdown of the main characteristics of each battlefield and the writer's reflections on history and war, followed by a reporter's description of the events that Ivanković received through the testimonies of the participants themselves.
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