From the center of the nightmare in Bosnia, a war correspondent's flaming montage of images - eerie, grotesque, ironic, angry, absurd. A Serb and a Muslim, friends before the war, exchanging gossip via shortwave radio only hours before they will try to kill each other. A Sarajevo couple passionately refusing to go anywhere together for fear a mortar shell might orphan their children. A battlefield doctor performing miracles of surgery without anesthetics. In episode after episode, Peter Maass takes us with him into the minefields of modern war: a whole country is the battleground, every living being in it a combatent. His fierce, vivid, truth-telling and deeply personal book makes us see the devil under the skin - and the thinness of the line between civilization and chaos.

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I read about 100 pages in this book and just could not get into it. It is well-written but its about the war in Bosnia and just wasen't my cup of tea. I have read other books by Peter Maas and really enjoyed them. I think because of the atrocities and mayhem I just couldn't get past them. This is probably a man's book, someone who is really interested in some of the world's problems. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in world affairs

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This was a fast and easy read. Highly recommended for anyone who is interested in what happended to Yugoslavia. The writer was so descriptive and honest. By reading this book i now feel that i know what happened during between the serbs and the bosnians. So sad!

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