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Title: Crisis at Bihac: Bosnia's Bloody Battlefield by Brendan O'Shea, Robert Fisk ISBN: 0-7509-1927-2 Publisher: Sutton Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Bihac
Comment: I found Mr.O'shea's book interesting,especially the objective parts of it; interviews,letters and case stories. Several times though the objectiveness faltered and one had to read about the author's personal views and insignificant problems for ECCM personel, compared to what the Bihac people had to live thru. Accounts of how life in Bihac town was, stories from and about local people, and their views on how life in Bosnia might have ended had the US not broken the weapons embargo, were missing.And then perhaps a subjective epilog from the author on how to survive an onslaught by an army, which is supported with men and material from the JNA.

Rating: 5
Summary: In the Balkans, your friends may be your toughest foes.
Comment: Fighting in the Bihac Pocket of northern Bosnia pitted not only the usual antagonists against one another but also saw one Muslim warlord fight in tandem with Serbs against the regular Muslim army. The result was havoc on a scale remarkable even for the war in Bosnia. Brendan O'Shea was present as a UN military observer and uses his firsthand knowledge and special access to original sources to document the startling and terrible effects of a civil war within a civil war. O'Shea also gives us an insight into the perils of demonizing any group (read the Serbs). Like any corruption of the truth, this behavior allows other, equally reprehensible types to get away with the very same atrocities without condemnation (read the Croats). The book further reminds us that hope can come from the most bizarre quarters, especially in this most bizarre part of the world. In December 1994, at a small cafe in Plains, Georgia, a waitress with a southern drawl interrupted a group at a table. She had a long distance call for one of them, who happend to be a representative of former President Jimmy Carter. The call was from Radovan Karadzic and he was putting an offer for a cease fire on the table (literally). And the cease fire held, at least for a time. Only in the Balkans.