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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade ReviewWhen 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 the enemy lines, they openly rebelled against the idea of the siege and division of the city. Their spirit and will to live was simply stronger than death itself. And that's the most important lesson the reader's of this book can learn from the teachers and students of Treca Gimnazija. -- from the Foreword by Sven Alkalaj, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United States 1994-2000
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Maps Chapter 5 On Baking Bread, Building a Palace, and Doing Research on the War Schools of Sarajevo Chapter 6 Schooling in Wartime Conditions, April 1992-September 1992 Chapter 7 The War Schools of Sarajevo, September 1992-March 1993 Chapter 8 The War Schools of Treca Gimnazija, March 1993-July 1994 Chapter 9 Treca Gimnazija as a Frontline School, July 1994-April 1996 Chapter 10 Epilogue: Pedagogical Patriotism: The Aftermath
