Book Review - Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia

By Marko Attila Hoare
Greater Surbiton Blog
May 25 2009

 

Review of Savo Heleta's Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia (AMACOM, New York, 2008)
 

In his book, Heleta has provided a gripping, harrowing account of his family’s suffering in wartime Gorazde. He describes the intimidation, murder attempts, vandalism of property and other abuses to which he, his family and other Serb civilians were subjected at the hands of local Bosniak thugs, as well as lengthy arbitrary incarcerati