Lynne Jones - Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become

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Then They Started Shooting

Beautifully illustrates the way in which people (in this case children) actively engage with the experience of war... Highly original.

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Out of the horror of human cruelty in the Bosnian war comes a bright note.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Thought-provoking and readable.

LIBRARY JOURNAL

Careful, sensitive... a deeply intimate look into the emotional makeup of children of war.

KIRKUS REVIEWS

Absorbing... offers new insights into Bosnian SerbMuslim relations through the eyes of children.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Psychiatrist Lynne Jones, working in Bosnia, discovered a striking puzzle: most children exposed to the extreme trauma of war were not mentally ill. This remarkable book not only contributes to social historyincluding our understanding of the genocide in Srebrenicabut also to psychiatry. Her astonishing work challenges the medical model in understanding human responses to cruelty.

SIMON BARON-COHEN,

Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge University, and author of The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

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

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

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

Lynne Jones is an internationally-known expert on the effects of war on children. Her description of the legacy of the savage war in Bosnia is a shattering but necessary read.... This book should be in the knapsack of every international administrator.

BRENDAN SIMMS,

author of Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy

Children of the

Bosnian War and the

Adults They Become

LYNNE JONES

BELLEVUE LITERARY PRESS

NEW YORK

This edition published in the United States in 2013 by Bellevue Literary Press, New York

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Copyright 2013 by Lynne Jones

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