From Enemy Territory: Pale Diary

Book Description
Set in 1992 at the outbreak of the war in Yugoslavia, the author, a Croatian writer and editor for Sarajevo Television keeps a diary of the extraordinary events as they unfold around him. The book details the author's diary entries, in which he describes not only the horrifying war; the looting, stealing, and betrayal that became commonplace, but also the mental strain of war on the individual. This diary was written under permanent fear of discovery and was smuggled out from Pale to the Hungarian border at the risk of torture and reprisals.


About the Author
Mladen Vuksanovic was born in Pale to a Croatian mother and Serbian father. He died in 2001.



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"Set at the outbreak of war in Bosnia this diary, penned by the award-winning journalist Vuksanovic, records the extraordinary unfolding of events. The author lived in the small mountain resort of Pale, 15 km above Sarajevo. When Radovan Karadzic launched his savage assault on the city in April 1992, Vuksanovic - refusing to collaborate - became a prisoner in his own home, cut off from his children and friends who remained in Sarajevo. He expressed his terror and disgust within these pages." During the first hundred days of Karadzic's rule in Pale Vuksanovic describes, in chilling detail, not only the horrors of war - the looting, ethnic cleansing and betrayal that became commonplace - but also the profound mental strain of conflict on the individual.


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