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    <body><![CDATA[I think this may be one of the most moving and gut-wrenching books about war that I've ever read. I'm not sure why it made so much more of an impact on me than all of the other books of war journalism I've read over the years. There's something about it that just really gets under your skin. Maybe i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16079317">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The only reason I gave this three stars is because this is a bit of hard reading. Not hard in difficulty, but hard in the subject matter. It can be a bit depressing at times, but aside from that, this is a very worthy reading. The story covers the Bosnian war during the nineties until the Dayton Acc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53395674">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like this nearly as much as &quot;Palestine,&quot; although it was still arresting. It seems &quot;safer,&quot; somehow -- part of the drama of &quot;Palestine&quot; was watching Sacco figure out his own craft (the images look completely different by the end of the book, for instance) and w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49243770">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like with Palestine, his previous graphic account of life in the occupied territories, I didn’t like Sacco. Here, though, he’s less evident while recounting his experiences in the title town during the Bosnian war. As the Serbs aggressively attacked their Bosnian neighbors, took territory and li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30848976">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995]]>
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    <![CDATA[A landmark work of New Journalism is now available in softcover.  <p><em>Safe Area Gorazde</em> is Joe Sacco's 240-page opus about the war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco spent four months in Bosnia in 1995-1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war. Sacco spent four weeks in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or running water.  <p>The hardcover edition of <em>Safe Area Gorazde</em> put Sacco on the map as one of the pre-eminent journalists of his time, and the softcover edition will present his work to a wider audience. The book has been prominently featured in <em>The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Utne Reader, Spin, The London Times, The Washington Post, Brill's Content</em>, several NPR programs, <em>The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Economist, The Atlantic Monthly</em>, and other media. The book also led to Sacco being named a recipient of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship. <em>Safe Area Gorazde</em> features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens, political columnist for <em>The Nation</em> and <em>Vanity Fair</em>.</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The American Civil War's reputation of pitting brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor, family against family, was sadly reenacted during the conflict in Bosnia in the early 90s. This &quot;comic&quot; version tells the story from the perspective of those &quot;every-people&quot; who were...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8626224">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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