"Eve-Ann Prentice gives her personal testimonial of the complicated and often misunderstood war in the Balkans. Having over the past fifteen years become one of the region's most experienced correspondents for The Times and Guardian, she takes to task the West's superficial demonisation of the Serbs. Though portrayed as a pariah state today, the country is no more a nation of rapists and murderers than it was during her first visit in 1986 when the region was a bright exception to the gloom of Eastern-Europe." "Through her portraits of Serbs of all backgrounds emerges an unusual nation with great flair: from their leaders such as the now-indicted Bosnian Serb war criminal, Radovan Karadzic, with whom she happens to share a cab ride, to the sympathetic doctor Goran Zdravkovic, who treats Eve-Ann Prentice and days later becomes a refugee, and Ivan Novkovic, a weather presenter who called for the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to resign in a rogue broadcast. In the great tradition of Michael Herr's famous record of the Vietnam war, Dispatches, Eve-Ann Prentice draws a definitive picture of the Balkan war's twisted psychology as only an expert with unparalleled contacts can hope to achieve."--Jacket
