Charles R. Shrader

“English persons, therefore, of humanitarian and reformist disposition constantly went out to the Balkan Peninsula to see who was in fact ill-treating whom, and, being by the very nature of their perfectionist faith unable to accept the horrid hypothesis that everybody was ill-treating everybody else, all came back with a pet Balkan people established in their hearts as suffering and innocent, eternally the massacree and never the massacrer.” - Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey show more Falcon

This is the quote Shrader begins the book with and honestly I'd argue that one could not find a better description of the Balkans anywhere.

This is a solid book, dry as it sticks to "just the facts ma'am" of military history and goes a long way to proving the Muslims did their own bit of expansion and cleansing during the war despite the media and UNPROFOR's slant and coverage. Simply put, there were no clean hands.

You won't find any real first hand accounts here or many quotes, but still for the length and for the facts Shrader calmly lays out, it's a good read. show less