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Beautifully illustrates the way in which people (in this case children) actively engage with the experience of war . . . Highly original. -- Times Literary Supplement <br> Out of the horror of human cruelty in the Bosnian war comes a bright note. -- Foreign Affairs <br> Profound . . . Rarely do we get the opportunity to delve into the thoughts of the young caught up in such a tragedy--and meet them not just once in their lives but again years later. This is a moving, well written and above all, deeply disturbing book. --TIM JUDAH, Europe correspondent for Bloomberg World View, Balkans Correspondent for The Economist, and author of The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia <br> Part narrative, part analysis, part thoughtful reflection, this book belongs among the classic accounts of children and war. --JENNIFER LEANING, M.D., S.M.H., Harvard School of Public Health <br> Lynne Jones brings to the extreme situation she describes a truly unique combination of hands-on communally oriented psychiatric help; sensitive research on the impact of war and upheaval on children; and an astute sense of the interplay of political policies and psychological behavior. . . . The book not only deepens our understanding of what happened in the former Yugoslavia but contributes greatly to our more general grasp of the consequences of death, loss, and dislocation, and the stubborn human persistence in the face of them. --ROBERT JAY LIFTON, author of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide and Witness to an Extreme Century <br> One of the most illuminating books to have emerged out of the embers of the Bosnian war. Few outsiders have acquired such an inside knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of ordinary Bosnians, on both sides of the wartime divide. --NOEL MALCOLM, author of Bosnia: A Short History and Chairman of the Bosnian Institute in London <br> Lynne Jones is an internationally-known expert on the

Beautifully illustrates the way in which people (in this case children) actively engage with the experience of war . . . Highly original. -- Times Literary Supplement <br> Out of the horror of human cruelty in the Bosnian war comes a bright note. -- Foreign Affairs <br> Careful, sensitive . . . a deeply intimate look into the emotional makeup of children of war. -- Kirkus Reviews <br> Thought-provoking and readable. -- Library Journal <br> Profound . . . Rarely do we get the opportunity to delve into the thoughts of the young caught up in such a tragedy--and meet them not just once in their lives but again years later. This is a moving, well written and above all, deeply disturbing book. --TIM JUDAH, Europe correspondent for Bloomberg World View, Balkans correspondent for The Economist, and author of The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia <br> Part narrative, part analysis, part thoughtful reflection, this book belongs among the classic accounts of children and war. --JENNIFER LEANING, M.D., S.M.H., Harvard School of Public Health <br> Lynne Jones brings to the extreme situation she describes a truly unique combination of hands-on communally oriented psychiatric help; sensitive research on the impact of war and upheaval on children; and an astute sense of the interplay of political policies and psychological behavior. . . . The book not only deepens our understanding of what happened in the former Yugoslavia but contributes greatly to our more general grasp of the consequences of death, loss, and dislocation, and the stubborn human persistence in the face of them. --ROBERT JAY LIFTON, author of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide and Witness to an Extreme Century <br> One of the most illuminating books to have emerged out of the embers of the Bosnian war. Few outsiders have acquired such an inside knowledge of the thoughts and feelings of ordinary Bosnians, on both sides of

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Lynne Jones is a child psychiatrist, relief worker, anthropologist, and author of Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They've Become. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her work in child psychiatry in conflict-affected areas of Central Europe and has established and directed mental health programs in areas of conflict and natural disaster throughout Latin America, the Balkans, East and West Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Her field diaries have been published in O, The Oprah Magazine and London Review of Books, and her audio diaries have been broadcast on the BBC World Service. A Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, visiting scientist at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, research associate in the Developmental Psychiatry Section at the University of Cambridge, and honorary consultant at the Maudsley Hospital in London, Jones was also a senior mental health advisor for the International Medical Corps for seven years and is currently the Early Child Development Adviser for the Aga Khan Foundation in northern Mozambique.

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