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Author Borger, Julian.

Title The butcher's trail : how the search for Balkan war criminals became the world's most successful manhunt / by Julian Borger.

Publication Info. New York : Other Press, [2016].
©2016

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  341.69 BORGER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  341.6 BOR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  341.69 BORGER    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  341.69 BO    Check Shelf
Description xxx, 400 pages : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Maps on lining papers.
Summary "The gripping, untold story of The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and how the perpetrators of Balkan war crimes were captured by the most successful manhunt in history. Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher's Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Borger recounts how Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić--both now on trial in The Hague--were finally tracked down, and describes the intrigue behind the arrest of Slobodan Milošević, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for crimes perpetrated in a time of war. Based on interviews with former special forces soldiers, intelligence officials, and investigators from a dozen countries--most speaking about their involvement for the first time--this book reconstructs a fourteen-year manhunt carried out almost entirely in secret. Indicting the worst war criminals that Europe had known since the Nazi era, the ICTY ultimately accounted for all 161 suspects on its wanted list, a feat never before achieved in political and military history"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-373) and index.
Contents Author's Note -- Operation Amber Star -- Operation Little Flower -- A High Expectation of Violence : the SAS in Bosnia -- Manhunting the Pentagon Way -- The Hunt in Croatia -- Gorillas and Spikes -- The Tracking Team -- The Strange Death of Dragan Gagović -- The Spymaster of the Hotel de Brienne -- Slobodavia : The Fall of Milošević and the Unraveling of Serbia -- Radovan Karadžić : the Shaman in the Madhouse -- The Old Man in the Farmhouse : Mladić on the Run -- The Legacy -- Chronology.
Subject Karadžić, Radovan V., 1945-
Mladić, Ratko.
Gagović, Dragan, 1960-
Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006.
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Atrocities.
War crimes investigation -- History -- 20th century.
International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991.
Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Biography.
War criminals -- Former Yugoslav republics -- Biography.
Fugitives from justice -- Former Yugoslav republics -- Biography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence.
Gagović, Dragan, 1960- (OCoLC)fst00383878
Karadžić, Radovan V., 1945- (OCoLC)fst00379849
Milošević, Slobodan, 1941-2006. (OCoLC)fst00256400
Mladić, Ratko. (OCoLC)fst00384230
International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. (OCoLC)fst00700762
Yugoslav War (1991-1995) (OCoLC)fst01183774
Atrocities. (OCoLC)fst00820727
Fugitives from justice. (OCoLC)fst00935947
War crimes investigation. (OCoLC)fst01895839
War criminals. (OCoLC)fst01170469
Yugoslavia. (OCoLC)fst01279262
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
ISBN 9781590516058 (hardback : acid-free paper)
1590516052 (hardback : acid-free paper)
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