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Murphy, Irish nurse and adventure traveler extraordinaire (she has traveled alone to and written about such dangerous places as Afghanistan and Pakistan), has compiled a fascinating and in-depth look at a region with a long and terrible history. The work is based on her three trips to the Balkans: the first to Zagreb, Croatia, in 1991, soon after Slovenia's and Croatia's secession from Yugoslavia and three months before the Bosnian conflict began; the second, a five-week trip to Serbia in 1999, four months after th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More