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I usually read graphic novels in one go but I couldn‘t do it with this one. It is hard to believe that humans can commit such horrible crimes even though history and reality sadly confirm now and again that they certainly can. Joe Sacco is the master of comic journalism and once again his written and graphic report have made a deep impression on me. I highly recommend it.

Joe Sacco brings us with him on his several trips he took to Gorazde, a U.N.-designated safe Area during the Bosnian War in late 1995 and early 1996.

In this graphic non-fiction, Joe Sacco explains the origins of the conflict, and through Gorazde gives us a snapshot of the war. He draws people's accounts in a very realistic manner, which conveys all the horrors of this war.

Explosions of song & explosions of mortars. The joy of karaoke & the devastation post-assault. Emotive portraits & detailed, evocative street scenes—down to the claw pattern pockmarks in the streets from shelling. Milking the cows, then retreating to the safe house. First-person accounts of Srebrenica, air drops, night-long mountain hikes for supplies. The war of neighbors.

During the Bosnian war, GoraĹľde was the last standing UN “safe area” for Bosnian Muslims surrounded by Serb forces. Sacco accompanies 1st UN supply convoy in fall of 1995. Graphic journalism=journalist‘s semi-detached eye mixed with personal stories including teacher/soldier Edin & song-belting sniper Riki. Vivid illustrations. Atrocities & nightclubbing, need for flour, artillery, anesthesia, & new, authentic Levi‘s. Clear-eyed & intimate. 2000

Joe Sacco has spent several months in Bosnia, in a Muslim enklave GoraĹľde, in 1995. The war is approaching its end but the peace and normal life remain a distant dream for the people Sacco meets and who's stories he retells. One of the best literary representation of the war in ex-Yougoslavia I have sofar read. I highly recommend this graphic novel!

#MarchIntoOz Day 15: A lot of #CryInShame moments in this chilling graphic novel- journalistic narrative of the war in Eastern Bosnia, former Yugoslavia. Sacco has this unique habit of inserting himself into the narrative while being self-effacing - almost a form of self-mockery; what we call a form of personal reflexivity in qualitative research. What I know about Bosnia and Palestine, I owe to Joe Sacco‘s fearless reports.

Incredible panel, a poignant tribute to human ingenuity.The war in the Balkans was one of the main conflicts one heard of in the 90s(though that wasn't the only theatre of genocide, such as they were,bloody conflicts in Rwanda as well).

A very interesting account of the Bosnian war in graphic novel form.

Our only hope was the support of the world. We‘d expected that for months and years. We thought they would stop it. But they didn't do anything. (From a testimony by a man from GoraĹľde)