Two Days Till Peace: A Sarajevo Airport Story by Mile Jovicic

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By Mile Jovicic

“This is an engaging and gripping survival tale. The booklet describes what it used to be prefer to stay day-to-day in a urban present process the beginnings of a poor civil struggle the place one didn't recognize what used to be happening from one minute to the subsequent and there has been probability at each nook. acquaintances, outdated buddies and co-workers without notice turned enemies and even if you loved it or now not you have been compelled to take facets. the writer tells his tale with suspense and honesty. He did a extraordinary task in preserving the Sarajevo Airport operational opposed to all odds and in doing so was once in a position to aid millions of Sarajevans flee the horrors that speedy overcame town. a really wonderful read.”
—James Bissett, former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia
“As the early UN commander in Sarajevo it's going to have helped much if I knew a number of the info Mile recounts herein; regrettably, he was once a kilometer away, which through the battle was once a robust lengthy and hazardous trip.”
—Lewis Mackenzie, Canadian significant normal (Ret’d)
“An impressive testimony in regards to the early days of the struggle in Bosnia from a witness on the very center of occasions. Jovicic’s compelling account sheds mild at the chaotic scenario in mid-1992 and the various overlooked possibilities to prevent the bloodshed that ensued.”
—Nebojsa Malic, columnist, Antiwar.com
“What an excellent tale, breathtaking! on the Sarajevo Airport the occasions can have simply spun uncontrolled. the writer faithfully recorded many points of unreported heritage that forces us to reconsider what fairly occurred in Bosnia.”
—Kent Johnson, US Air strength Colonel (Ret’d)

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