Bosnia: the Reckoning

The War is Dead, Long Live the War

Part memoir and part reckoning, this is a startling examination of the legacy of the Bosnian war published on the twenty-first anniversary of the outbreak of the war.

The camps and their corrosive legacy are Vulliamy's subject in this searing book, in which he writes with controlled and righteous anger about the absence of any "reckoning"

A beautifully written and deeply heartfelt study in survival

A stark and brilliant testimony about a massive human atrocity

Ed Vulliamy is a journalist and writes for the Guardian and Observer. For his work in Bosnia, Italy, the US and Iraq he has won a James Cameron Award and an Amnesty International Media Award and has been named International Reporter of the Year (twice) and runner-up at the Foreign Press Association Awards. In 1996 he became the first journalist to testify at an international crimes court, at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia. 
Twitter: @edvulliamy

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives of those who survived the gulag of concentration camps in north-western Bosnia and about seeking justice for Bosnia today. 
 
But justice is not Reckoning. The book finds that the survivors are lost not only geographically, but in history – betrayed in war, and also in peace.

Ed Vulliamy

Amexica is fascinating, infuriating and inspiring. Essential reading

Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dog

A harrowing read about the narcowars in Mexico, economic exploitation and the horrors of the globalised drug trade

Previously, to understand the ruthlessness, ambition and impact of today's global criminals, you needed to read Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah and Misha Glenny's McMafia. Now, you also need to read Vulliamy's Amexica

The most vivid book so far published in English on the bloody calamity that has been visited on Mexico's northern border lands

Vulliamy is the ideal foreign correspondent to analyse the phenomenon. He knows the border well and was one of the first to report on the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez. He also refuses to find easy answers to difficult questions. While some commentators have made glib assumptions about the Mexican propensity for brutality, Amexica shows that the crushing power of the multinationals in a low-wage economy is a key factor

Ed Vulliamy provides a brilliant, rigorous analysis

With a great sense of timing, Vulliamy now comes out with the most vivid book so far published in English on the bloody calamity that has been visited on Mexico's northern border lands... The author has done a great deal of painstaking work in investigating and describing the blood-soaked frontier and the political cross-currants in both regions... it stands that this is a fascinating introduction to the bloody last act of the "war on drugs", which must surely soon pass unlamented into history

This absorbing odyssey along the Mexican-American border gives pause for thought to anyone who ignores the side-effects of cocaine...Vulliamy's reporting is faultlessly brave ...the scenery and characters he meets are brought alive with vividness and intensity'

War Along the Borderline

Between the interiors of the USA and Mexico lies a borderland: Amexica. 
 
A terrain astride the world’s busiest frontier, teeming with migrants, factory workers, narcos, tourists, heroines and heroes, ranchers and rogues. 
 
A border both porous and harsh, criss-crossed by a million people every day. 
 
A warzone, where a grotesque pastiche of the globalised economy plays out in a tragedy of unfathomable violence as drug cartels and state forces face off. 
 
 Amexica is a journey through the cartels’ reach into the borderland’s daily life: through migrant camps, drug-smuggling ‘plazas’, rehab centres, sweatshop factories and the mass-murder of women. Updated with new material ten years on it paints an essential portrait of a country under siege - and testament to people who carry on regardless. 
 
‘Previously, to understand the ruthlessness, ambition and impact of today's global criminals, you needed to read Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah and Misha Glenny's McMafia. Now, you also need to read Vulliamy's Amexica’ The Sunday Times

Ed Vulliamy

Praise for Amexica

Amexica is fascinating, infuriating and inspiring. Essential reading

A work of vivid social reportage

A harrowing read about the narcowars in Mexico, economic exploitation and the horrors of the globalised drug trade

Amexica is fascinating, infuriating and inspiring. Essential reading

A work of vivid social reportage

A harrowing read about the narcowars in Mexico, economic exploitation and the horrors of the globalised drug trade

Amexica is fascinating, infuriating and inspiring. Essential reading

A work of vivid social reportage

A harrowing read about the narcowars in Mexico, economic exploitation and the horrors of the globalised drug trade

Books by Ed Vulliamy

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