The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful ManhuntOther Press, LLC, 19. 9. 2017 - Počet stran: 432 Now updated and in paperback, the gripping story of how--and against what odds--the perpetrators of Balkan genocide were subjected to 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 for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Borger recounts how Ratko Mladić--now on trial in The Hague--and recently convicted Radovan Karadžić 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. |
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Operation Amber Star | 1 |
Operation Little Flower | 25 |
Manhunting the Pentagon Way | 77 |
The Hunt in Croatia | 101 |
Gorillas and Spikes | 127 |
The Tracking Team | 151 |
The Strange Death of Dragan Gagović | 181 |
The Spymaster of the Hôtel de Brienne | 197 |
The Legacy | 309 |
Acknowledgments | 333 |
Chronology | 337 |
Abbreviations | 345 |
Notes | 347 |
Bibliography | 370 |
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Photo Credits | 400 |
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