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Mostar 1985 Poor Bosnia and Herzegovina! I cannot name another country that has been so exploited. First it was the Hungarians, then the Ottomans. Along came the Austrians, followed by Hitler and his Croatian protegees, the psychotic Ustasha. After them the Jew-hating Amin Al Husseini from Jerusalem paid a special visit to Bosnia during World War 2. From 1981 it was the Franciscans at Međugorje, then Franjo Tudjman and Slobodan Milosović during the breakup of Yugoslavia.

I’ve always marvelled at the audacity of the Croatian priesthood pushing to canonize Aloysius Stepinac, knowing the crimes of the WW2...

The BALKAN ESSAYS of Hubert Butler The Irish Pages Press, 2016 I bought Hubert Butler’s Balkan Essays specifically to read The Artuković File. Naturally, I finished it first but after I had read everything else, Butler’s effect of understated horror was just as strong. In the restrained style of the scholar, he allows the reader to create his own vision of Croatia during World War 2. The writing is beautiful but unimpassioned, its