"If you can read just one book about Bosnia, this is it." --The Washington PostTaking its place on the short list of essential books about the Bosnian struggle, Blood and Vengeance succeeds in putting a human face on the conflict, rendering its devastation comprehensible to Western readers. Perhaps the most notorious and disputed outrage of the war was the massacre of as many as 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica. Although previously designated a safe area by the United Nations Security Council, Srebrenica was overrun by General Ratko Mladic's Bosnian Serb forces while U.N. peacekeeping troops stood by impotently. With novelistic eloquence and journalistic acumen, Sudetic follows several generations of the Celiks, the Muslim family he is related to by marriage, which met their tragic destiny at Srebrenica. His indelible portrait of these inhabitants of a remote mountaintop village outside of Srebrenica not only illumines the historical context of the tragedy but, more important, reveals the human impact of the horror. Blood and Vengeance contains the sweep and power of a panoramic historical painting, yet possesses the heartbreaking intimacy of a family snapshot.* Named a New York Times Notable Book and One of the Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly and the Washington Post"Superb. . . essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the war in Bosnia." --The New York Times"[A] triumph." --Chicago Tribune