Ten Thousand Shells and Counting: A Memoir 9781662402975, 9781737004714, 166240297X

This riveting and true story about war and survival takes us to the siege in Sarajevo in the 1990s, where a young woman

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Ten Thousand Shells and Counting: A Memoir
9781662402975, 9781737004714, 166240297X

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With a foreword by Lord Hailey.

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