{"product_id":"good-people-in-an-evil-time-isbn-9781590511961","title":"Good People in an Evil Time","description":"In the 1990s Svetlana Broz, granddaughter of former Yugoslav head of state Marshal  Tito, volunteered her services as a physician in war-torn Bosnia. She discovered  that her patients were not only in need of medical care, but that they urgently had  a story to tell, a story suppressed by nationalist politicians and the mainstream  media. What Broz heard compelled her to devote herself over the next several years  to the collection of firsthand testimonies from the war. These testimonies show that  ordinary people can and do resist the murderous ideology of genocide even under the  most terrible historical circumstances. We are introduced to Mile Plakalovic, a magnificent  humanist, who drove his taxi through the streets of Sarajevo, picking the wounded  up off the sidewalk and delivering food and clothing to young and old, even when  the bombing was at its worst. We meet Velimir Milosevic, poet, who traveled with  an actor and entertained children as they hid in basements to avoid the bombing and  gunfire, and we hear the stories of countless others who put themselves in grave  danger to help others, regardless of ethnic background.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Faced with a world in which  unspeakable crimes not only went unpunished but were rewarded with glory, profit,  and power, the Bosnians of all faiths who testify in this book were starkly confronted  with the limits and possibilities of their own ethical choices. Here, in their own  words they describe how people helped one another across ethnic lines and refused  the myths promoted by the engineers of genocide. This book refutes the stereotype  of inevitable natural enmities in the Balkans and reveals the responsibility of individual  actions and political manipulations for the genocide; it is a searing portrait of  the experience of war as well as a provocative study of the possibilities of resistance  and solidarity. The testimonies reverberate far beyond the frontiers of the former  Yugoslavia. This compelling book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand  the reality on the ground of the ethnic conflicts of the late twentieth and the twenty-first  centuries.\"For every front line soldier there are dozens, if not hundreds, of ordinary people  whose lives are affected by conflict. To most, the mere act of survival is all-consuming.  Some commit remarkable acts of heroism and a few place themselves in great danger  by reaching out across conflict lines to people in need. The people in this book  are ordinary. Their stories are anything but ordinary. In view of this, their testimonies  are all the more necessary. That in itself makes this an important book.\" —Her  Majesty Queen Noor, Member of the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Broz has collected stories of those who had refused to put their ethnicity ahead of their humanity...This is a precious testimony.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Svetlana Broz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Svetlana Broz, cardiologist, is currently Director of the NGO Garden of the Righteous in Sarajevo, the President of the Board of The First Children's Embassy in the World and a member of various NGOs, including the Association of Independent Intellectuals CIRCLE 99. She lives in Sarajevo.","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300943286501,"sku":"NP9781590511961","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590511961.jpg?v=1767728371","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/good-people-in-an-evil-time-isbn-9781590511961","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}