Norman Cigar
After the Fall succeeds in bringing Srebrenica, one of the most
chilling examples of genocide in Europe since the end of World War II,
down to the human level. This is a primary source that will keep its
relevance for years to come and will be a classic in its oral history
approach. (Norman Cigar, author of Genocide in Bosnia: the Policy of Ethnic
Cleansing)
Robert Coles
Here is extraordinary documentary work, done with great thoughtfulness
and with a moral energy that ought give all of us plenty to consider --
a book has become a collective witness, on the record, of humanity as it
struggles against terrible odds to endure. (Robert Coles, M.D., child psychiatrist, professor of social ethics at
Harvard University, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of
Crisis series.)
Studs Terkel
Srebrenica is no longer an exotic word. It is a metaphor for man's
inhumanity to man. Tom Maday's photographs and the victims' words,
through Patrick McCarthy's probings, offer us a searing portrait of
madness --as well as heroism. (Studs Terkel, oral historian, interviewer, and author of The Good War,
for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize)
Stevan Weine
The layers of truth that reside in McCarthy and Maday's book of words
and images give it a special place amongst survivors' accounts of
genocide. Americans will grow from hearing this nightmarish story of a
family come to its heartland by way of epic nationalistic crimes and
international complicity. No less impressive is the strength and beauty
it reveals about how survivor families adapt and find meaning in a new
country. The book shows that the struggle over the future of Bosnia and
its people is a struggle over memory, which is what's at stake whenever
these stories are told, including in its American diaspora in St.
Louis. (Stevan Weine M.D., author of (When History is a Nightmare: Lives and
Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina)