Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo

About the Author\nKenneth Morrison is Professor of Modern Southeast European History at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of Montenegro: A Modern History (2009), Sarajevo's Holiday Inn: On the Frontline of Politics and War (2016) and, with Elizabeth Roberts, The Sandžak: A History (2013). He has written extensively on the modern history of the Balkans. He has published numerous scholarly articles in edited books and journals and he has written for the BBC, the Guardian, Balkan Insight, New Eastern Europe, IHS Global, Jane's Intelligence Review, Jane's Intelligence Digest and the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has been an external advisor to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and was, in 2017, appointed Specialist Adviser on Balkan politics for the House of Lords International Relations Select Committee.\nPaul Lowe is Course Leader of the Masters programme in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, UK. He is an award-winning photographer, published in major national newspapers in the UK. He is a consultant to the World Press Photo foundation in Amsterdam.\nThe Siege of Sarajevo remains the longest siege in modern European history, lasting three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and over a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad.\nReporting the Siege of Sarajevo provides the first detailed account of the reporting of this siege and the role that journalists played in highlighting both military and non-military aspects of it. The book draws on detailed primary and secondary material in English and Bosnian, as well as extensive interviews with international correspondents who covered events in Sarajevo from within siege lines. It also includes hitherto unpublished images taken by the co-author and award-winning photojournalist, Paul Lowe.\nTogether Morrison and Lowe document a relatively short but crucial period in both the history of Bosnia & Herzegovina, the city of Sarajevo and the profession of journalism. The book provides crucial observations and insights into an under-researched aspect of a critical period in Europe's recent history.