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Operation Storm View other pieces in "The New York Review of Books"
By Mark Danner October 22, 1998
Tags: Croatia, Balkans Print

Books referred to in this article:

CROATIA: A NATION FORGED IN WAR
By Marcus Tanner
338 pages, $30.00 (hardcover), $16.00 (paperback)
published by Yale University Press (paper; to be published in November)

TO END A WAR
By Richard Holbrooke
408 pages, $27.95 (hardcover)
published by Random House

LOGAVINA STREET: LIFE AND DEATH IN A SARAJEVO NEIGHBORHOOD
By Barbara Demick and photographs by John Costello
182 pages, $19.95 (hardcover)
published by Andrews and McMeel

YUGOSLAVIA: DEATH OF A NATION
By Laura Silber and Allan Little
403 pages, $12.95 (paperback)
published by Penguin



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Standing motionless among their hulking war machines like statues in the dark, 200,000 Croat soldiers dropped their cigarettes, then clambered into tanks and trucks and armored personnel carriers and, in a sudden earsplitting eruption of grating gears, pushed forward into Serb-held Krajina. Thus began, before dawn on August 4, 1995, “Operation Storm.” Within h…
Stripping_bare Read the full text of this article in Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War.
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© 2010 Mark Danner