From Enemy Territory: Pale Diary

Set at the outbreak of war in Bosnia, Vuksanovic keeps a diary of the extraordinary events as they unfold around him. He describes in chilling detail the horrifying war and the mental strain of war on the individual.

Set in 1992 at the outbreak of the war in Yugoslavia, the author, a Croatian writer and editor for Sarajevo Television keeps a diary of the extraordinary events as they unfold around him. The book details the author's diary entries, in which he describes not only the horrifying war; the looting, stealing, and betrayal that became commonplace, but also the mental strain of war on the individual. This diary was written under permanent fear of discovery and was smuggled out from Pale to the Hungarian border at the risk of torture and reprisals.

Mladen Vuksanovic was born in Pale in 1942, to a Bosnian Croat mother and a Bosnian Serb father. An award-winning screenwriter and editor for Sarajevo TV before the war, Vuksanovic published this book in Zagreb in 1996. He died in 1999; his novel, Taksi za Jahorinu (Taxi to Jahorina), was published posthumously in 2000.