Book Review: "Not My Turn to Die" in the Financial Times

My book, Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia (March 2008, AMACOM Books), was reviewed by Stefan Wagstyl from the Financial Times:

Not My Turn to Die is the memoir of Savo Heleta, an ethnic Serb living in the mainly Muslim town of Gorazde who was 13 when war broke out. Unlike many Gorazde Serbs who flee the town, Heleta’s parents decide to stay – they have Muslim friends, and are well-known and liked in the community.

The enormity of their misjudgment dawns on them as ethnic