SOURCE: Despalatović, Elinor Murray. Review of Sterben in Kroatien: Vom Krieg mitten in Europa, by Slavenka Drakulic. Slavic Review 53, no. 3 (fall 1994): 927-28.

In the following review, Despalatović contends that Drakulic is at her best when describing the “underside” of the war in Croatia in The Balkan Express.

[Sterben in Kroatien: Vom Krieg mitten in Europa] is the German edition of the collection of essays known in this country as The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of the War (1993). The essays were originally written in Croatian and English. The English version contains two additional essays (“My Father's Pistol” and “A Bitter Capuccino”). Drakulić is a well-known Croatian journalist who, in addition to publishing articles in Danas, the major independent Croatian political journal, has been a regular contributor to The New Republic, New Statesman and Society, The Nation and Time. Her earlier book of essays, How We Survived...