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1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; 1 A Call from Far Away; 2 First Trip Abroad; 3 To the War Zone; 4 Chicago Meets Sarajevo; 5 The Jewish Community; 6 A Surprise Visit; 7 The Forgotten Victims; 8 Another SOS; 9 The Three Angels of Koševo; 10 Help Arrives; 11 Women of Substance; 12 Overnight with a Family; 13 Oasis; 14 A Day in Town; 15 America to the Rescue?; 16 Flight to Freedom; 17 Ethnic Pie; 18 Trouble on Nemanjina Street; 19 Iša and the Storm Troopers; 20 A Compromising Position; 21 A Prophet in the Rain; 22 The Animals of Sarajevo; 23 Oh Say Can You See |
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24 Sarajevo Reaches Out to Chicago25 Life at the Fathels'; 26 The Bandit; 27 Nedjod; 28 The Band Played On; 29 A New Home; 30 November's Woe; 31 Duška and the Dungeon; 32 Christmas Blues; 33 Happy New Year, Sarajevo!; 34 Eli Returns; 35 The Marketplace Massacre; 36 A Deadline Looms; 37 Homeward Bound; 38 Faces from Afar; Epilogue; Suggested Reading |
| Summary |
At the height of the Serbian siege of Sarajevo, Ellen Blackman could no longer bear the televised images of wounded children desperate for medical care. So she set off for Bosnia. There she shared the tragedies and occasional triumphs of a brave people whose world was crumbling around them while a seemingly indifferent world stood by. And despite tremendous bureaucratic and dangerous obstacles, she got the children out |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 305) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Blackman, Ellen.
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Blackman, Ellen
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Blackman, Ellen fast |
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Children -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Medical care -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography
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Journalists -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Children
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Journalists
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Medical care
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Kind
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Hilfe
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Erlebnisbericht
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Sarajevo -- History -- Siege, 1992-1996 -- Personal narratives, American
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Sarajevo
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United States
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Sarajevo -- Belagerung.
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collective biographies.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Biographies
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History
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781612342054 |
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1612342051 |
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1574880853 |
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9781574880854 |
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