Full name: They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague

Author: Slavenka Drakulic Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military, Politics, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780143035428 0143035428

"Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me--or monsters?" asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed during the war that tore apart Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Drawing on firsthand observations of the trials, as well as on other sources, Drakulic portrays some of the individuals accused of murder, rape, torture, ordering executions and more, during one of the most brutal conflicts in Europe in the twentieth century, including former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic; Radislav Krstic, the first to be sentenced for genocide; Biljana Plavsic, the only woman accused of war crimes; and Ratko Mladic, now in hiding. With clarity and emotion, Drakulic paints a wrenching portrait of a country needlessly torn apart. Similar books: The Impossible Country by Brian Hall Love Thy Neighbor by Peter Maass To End a War by Richard Holbrooke How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic A Cruel and Shocking Act by Philip Shenon Texas Tough by Robert Perkinson The Teapot Dome Scandal by Laton McCartney Lockdown America by Christian Parenti Amexica by Ed Vulliamy The Candy Machine by Tom Feiling Cafe Europa by Slavenka Drakulic Selling Hitler by Robert Harris El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Parkland by Dave Cullen Gangster Warlords by Ioan Grillo The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane Not in Your Lifetime by Anthony Summers ZeroZeroZero by Roberto Saviano