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This is a dreadful book. Didn't the writer do ANY research on Bosnia? When I got to the part where she said that describing the Bogomil philosophy was critical to understanding the mass rapes in 1992 and 1993, I nearly tossed the book in the trash. The Bogomils were a medieval religious sect that died out in the 1500s. Recent scholarship has questioned not only their influence, but also whether the Bosnian nobles were even Bogomils in the first place. The writer relies on a single interview with a seemingly distraught woman, she quotes extensively from the interview and decides that understanding this obscure theology is a useful tool for her readers. Maybe if she'd done the research instead of quoting someone she felt sorry for, the book would be better.
