Full name: Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo

Author: Zlata Filipovic Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, History, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780143036876

When Zlata's Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor's cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world away. Similar books: American Sniper by Chris Kyle No Easy Day by Mark Owen The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman Auschwitz by Miklos Nyiszli The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart A Woman in Berlin by Marta Hillers Devil at My Heels by Louis Zamperini Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing Ngor One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir Joker One by Donovan Campbell The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler War Letters by Andrew Carroll Behind Enemy Lines by Marthe Cohn The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn A Soldier's Story by Omar N. Bradley The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara Until the Final Hour by Traudl Junge Looking Like the Enemy by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald