Top Bosnia Quotes
During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff. On one occasion, we made a special detour to the...
Christopher Hitchens
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bosnia, bosnian war, city councils, croats, david rieff, extremism, humour, intellectuals, islamic extremism, jews
In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly tho...
Christopher Hitchens
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bosnia, bosnian war, bullets, causes, churchill, death, john burns, martyrdom, mortars, near death experience