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Article: Snap Judgment: Books.(War and Peace in the Balkans)(Red Leaves)(The City of Tiny Lights)(Book Review)
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- Newsweek International
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- July 25, 2005
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Byline: Ginanne Brownell, Kristin Luna, Shailaja Neelakantan
War and Peace in the Balkans by Ian Oliver
Since the end of the Balkan wars, there have been a rash of books dissecting Yugoslavia's disintegration with varying degrees of dry gravitas. Now Oliver, a former British Foreign Office staffer and the first "High Representative" for Bosnia, has written a riveting account of life as a diplomat following the signing of the Dayton accords, which ended the Bosnian war in 1995. Oliver's conversational style is accessible and he lays bare a fascinating insider's view of the intricacies, distresses and irreverent humor of nation-building. "War" is an ...