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Reviews

When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Author: Stevan Weine; Rutgers University Press, 1999

Reviews:

Robert Coles, M.D. author of Children of Crisis and The Moral Intelligence of Children:

"An extraordinary effort, on part of an American psychiatrist, to understand a terrible European tragedy that still puzzles and haunts us. The result is a compelling series of human documents—stories from Bosnia that will bring the suffering there close to our minds and hearts, awaken and inform us mightily."

Tvrtko Kulenovic Ph.D., University of Sarajevo and former president of P.E.N. Bosnia-Herzegovina:

"Weine’s history, based on survivors’ testimonies, produces a history with human faces that is more capable of helping us to fulfill promises then so many Holocaust claims of ‘Never again!’ Bosnians will be grateful for this book"

Ervin Staub Ph.D., author, The Roots of Evil :

"A remarkable book. Everybody ought to read this panoramic view of the tragedy of Bosnia."

Jerrold M. Post M.D., co-author, Political Paranoia: The Psychopolitics of Hatred:

"Through his skillful empathic listening and eloquent writing, Stevan Weine conveys the magnitude of the horrors, the dreadful consequences of man's inhumanity to man."

Yael Danieli Ph.D., editor, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond:

"A profoundly human book, with a keen ear for the story, and an open heart to convey its depth. Stevan Weine attempts to weave history, human rights, psychology, anthropology, and creative arts, to provide a new perspective."