A unique narrative about one of the great tragedies of the 20th century. A perfectly crafted blend of personal memory and historical reflection. Everyone who reads this book will come to understand much through Slavko Goldstein's deeply humane perspective on the experience of horror. In 1941, the Germans occupied the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and in Croatia, the fascist Ustashe took power. Slavko Goldstein, one of the most prominent intellectuals in former Yugoslavia, recounts the weeks and months he experienced as a fourteen-year-old. He compellingly describes the dynamics of violence in the Balkans, which were set in motion in 1941 when the Ustashe government murdered hundreds of thousands of people, primarily from the Serbian population. Goldstein chronicles the events day by day, week by week.