This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace
Review by Stanley Hoffmann
Foreign Affairs
September/October 2005

Books that report the experiences of people who have been the victims of history and survived — sometimes by their own efforts, sometimes by chance, sometimes by shady compromises — rarely get serious review treatment. They should. Hunt, who was President Bill Clinton's ambassador to Austria, has put together interviews with 26 Bosnian women. They come from different backgrounds but share an emotional strength and a generosity of spirit, a dignity and humanity, that together make the case for a greater role for women in the politics of their societies — and make the rest of the world's hesitancy to intervene to defend human rights in Bosnia very hard to justify.