Crimes of war, crimes of peace: Destruction of libraries during and after the Balkan Wars of the 1990s

Library Trends

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-132

  Riedlmayer, András J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 50049083632     PISSN: 00242594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lib.2007.0057     Document Type: Article

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