Thursday, December 29, 2011


Business World online:

SARAJEVO -- Angelina Jolie's™s movie about the Bosnian war brought back harsh and powerful memories on Thursday at a screening in the city where many of the most brutal events of the 1992-95 conflict occurred.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011


What a coincidence! 

The release of Requiem for a Country (December 2011) came around the same time when the movie about the last Bosnian war, Angelina Jolie's A Land of Blood and Honey, started showing in theaters.

I published Requiem as a sequel to The Last Exile (November 2009). It is a comprehensive,  documented, annotated and footnoted political memoir about losing my native Bosnia twice -- in 1941 in the WWII and again in the three-pronged hostilities and genocides of the 1990s. 

The movie made both my books quite topical again .