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The Heroes of Treca Gimnazija. A War School in Sarajevo, 1992-1995.
David M. Berman
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Paperback. The educators and students of Treca Gimnazija, one of 13 secondary schools that were destroyed during Sarajevo's siege (1992-1996), tell the stories of their own personal war in the battle for the mind and chronicle their shared experience in this book. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; JNK; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
Shelled into ruins at the onset of the Bosnian War (1993), Treca Gimnazija, a high school in central Sarajevo, became a Owar school,O adapting to wartime conditions by conducting classes in the dispersed basement classrooms in neighborhoods across the city. Education scholar David M. Berman, who interviewed many of Treca GimnazijaOs students, teachers, and administrators during the siege of Sarajevo, 1992-1995, as well as after the war, chronicles the human drama of everyday life in a high school operating under the constant threat of enemy guns and mortar fire. The real story of the siege of Sarajevo, put in educational ... Read more
Shelled into ruins at the onset of the Bosnian War (1993), Treca Gimnazija, a high school in central Sarajevo, became a Owar school,O adapting to wartime conditions by conducting classes in the dispersed basement classrooms in neighborhoods across the city. Education scholar David M. Berman, who interviewed many of Treca GimnazijaOs students, teachers, and administrators during the siege of Sarajevo, 1992-1995, as well as after the war, chronicles the human drama of everyday life in a high school operating under the constant threat of enemy guns and mortar fire. The real story of the siege of Sarajevo, put in educational ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847695683
SKU
V9780847695683
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99-15
About David M. Berman
David M. Berman is associate professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also an affiliated faculty member of the Russian and Eastern European Studies Program.
Reviews for The Heroes of Treca Gimnazija. A War School in Sarajevo, 1992-1995.
When the Bosnian Serb Army besieged and occupied Grbavica carving the dividing line right through the tissue of cohesive, inner-city communities, the teachers and students of Sarajevo were first among those who courageously crossed the line of danger, going out of their shelters and back to work and study. By deciding to do that despite constant shelling and sniping from ... Read more