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My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide
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Author:
Jessica Stern
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
January 28, 2020
An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal and hero to white nationalists.
What The Reviewers Say
What happens when an author tries so strenuously to empathize with her subject that she loses control of her own book?.
... intriguing.
... raises the question of when it is worthwhile to give an outlet to a war criminal and what risks are involved.
The author allows readers to draw their own conclusions, suggesting that a sense of Serb nationalism drove Karadzic’s actions, leading him to believe that ethnic cleansing would ultimately create the new Serb order he desired. Stern’s book is a worthy complement to Robert Donia’s Radovan Karadzic: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide.
