Title
Beyond the Mountains of the Damned : The War inside Kosovo / Matthew McAllester.
ISBN
9780814764381
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2001]
Copyright
©2001
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814764381.001.0001 doi
Call Number
DR2087.2.P43 M33 2001eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
949.7103
Summary
Winner, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2002, Non-FictionFor every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed. Reporters weren't allowed into Kosovo during the war without the permission of the Yugoslavian government but Matthew McAllester went anyway. In Beyond the Mountains of the Damned he tells the story of Pec, Kosovo's most destroyed city and the site of the earliest and worst atrocities of the war, through the lives of two men-one Serb and one Kosovar. They had known each other, and been neighbors for years before one visited tragedy on the other. With a journalist's eye for detail McAllester asks the great question of war: What kind of men could devastate an entire city, killing whole families, and feel no sense of guilt? The answer lies in the culture of gangsterism and ethnic hatred that began with the collapse of Yugoslavia.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. One Town, Two Lives
2. The Ghosts of Kula Pass
3. Staying Behind
4. The Serbian Canterbury
5. The Friendly Lion and the KLA
6. In the Trunk of a Gray BMW
7. Coffee with Zejnepe
8. Burning
9. Agreements
10. The Illyrian Wolves
11. A Silent Town
12. The Killing
13. A White Plastic Bag in the Long Grass
14. New Roofs, New Coffins
15. The Butcher's Business
Bibliography
About the Author
