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Sunflowers and snipers : saving children in the Balkan war / Sally Becker.
- Title
- Sunflowers and snipers : saving children in the Balkan war / Sally Becker.
- Author
- Becker, Sally
- Publication
- Stroud : History Press, 2012.
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| Text | Request in advance | DR1313.7.F672 B384 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 256 p. : ill. (some col.), map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In May 1993, Sally Becker went to Bosnia to help victims of war, delivering medical aid and evacuating wounded children from the beseiged city of Mostar. She was dubbed the 'Angel of Mostar', and was hailed for her efforts to treat the casualties on both sides. When Milosevic ordered his troops into Kosovo her missions continued, this time on foot across the mountains, taking refugees to safety. While doing so she was captured by Serb paramilitaries and sent to prison, but neither this or being shot by masked gunmen could make her abandon her task.
- Subject
- Becker, Sally
- Becker, Sally
- 1991-1999
- War Crimes > history
- Rescue Work > history
- History, 20th Century
- Child
- Warfare
- Child Welfare
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 > Children > Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Children and war > Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Warfare > Yugoslavia > Personal Narratives
- Child > Yugoslavia
- History, 20th Century > Yugoslavia > Personal Narratives
- Rescue Work > history > Yugoslavia > Personal Narratives
- War Crimes > history > Yugoslavia > Personal Narratives
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999 > Children > Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Humanitarian assistance > Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999 > Personal narratives
- Child > Bosnia-Herzegovina > Personal Narratives
- Child > Yugoslavia > Personal Narratives
- Yugoslavia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) > History > Siege, 1992-1996 > Personal narratives, British
- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) > History > Siege, 1992-1996 > Personal narratives
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Yugoslavia
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- History
- Personal narratives
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part I -- 1 From Brighton to the Balkans 12 -- 2 'You Can Do So Much More' 20 -- 3 Crescent, Cross and Star 24 -- 4 'I'm Sure You Mean Well' 31 -- 5 Baby Brigadier 35 -- 6 'Stick to Helping the Jews' 42 -- 7 Handouts and Holdups 49 -- 8 Crossing the Line 55 -- 9 An Unlikely Angel 65 -- 10 East Side 72 -- 11 Incoming 78 -- 12 Collette 83 -- 13 Operaton Angel 89 -- 14 Jinxed 100 -- 15 'You Have Put People s Lives at Risk!' 110 -- 16 'They Could Have Done This Without You' 115 -- 17 Nova Bila 121 -- 18 Promise Kept 127 -- Part II -- 19 Kosovo and the Queen 135 -- 20 To Bajram Curri 144 -- 21 Dangerous Crossing 154 -- 22 'Welcome to Kosovo' 160 -- 23 Pied Piper 166 -- 24 Accursed Mountains 171 -- 25 Under Arrest 178 -- 26 Interrogation 183 -- 27 A 'Confession' 188 -- 28 Lipljan Prison 194 -- 29 An Unexpected Visitor 206 -- 30 Another Mission 211 -- 31 Blood and Rain 223 -- 32 Nobody's Angel 228 -- 33 Bajram Bill 233 -- 34 'I am the Baby You Rescued' 240.
- ISBN
- 0752483099
- 9780752483092
- OCLC
- 783142291
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library