Under the Ustasha  Mark Mazower    • Sarajevo, 1941-45: Muslims,
Christians and Jews in Hitler’s Europe by Emily Greble
Cornell, 276 pp, £21.50, February 2011, ISBN 978 0 8014 4921 5
I last flew into Sarajevo on 28 June 1994. The besieged city was
momentarily quiet. Forces loyal to Milosevic and Karadzic looked
down from the hills, but a demilitarisation agreement was
holding firm. On the drive from the airport, I shared a ride
with an Austrian journalist, in town because it was 80 years to
the day since Archduke Franz Ferdinand had been shot. ‘What do
people think of Gavrilo Princip now?’ she asked the driver.
‘That terrorist,’ he replied. A couple of days later, a friend
sneaked me into the Unprofor headquarters in a villa in the
centre of town. General Michael Rose was away in Pale, we were
told, negotiating with the Serbs. We were shown into a bedroom,
now used as Rose’s private office. A Royal Marine sat back in
the general’s chair, feet on the desk, his head hidden behind a
thick book. The book was