Title: black and gray
Review: Ethnic Cleansing the the Balkans is a stark picture of the horror of war. Graphic details about the recent conflict fill page after page. Ms. Carmichael pinpoints a deranged concept of nationalism as the driving force behind the "cleansing".The book was not comfortable to read. War is never very pretty, and certainly depressing. However, the book offers insights on how people behave during war, good and bad. I felt that the best chapter was the conclusion, where it was pointed out that there is a difference between a violent population and a population that is subjected to continued disruptive violent incursions. Rebecca West's Black Lamb Gray Falcon covers the history of the region in depth. This book is more of an analysis of recent events, with just enough history to set the scene.
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