War is the Same Everywhere

In the midst of another war on European soil, and many other wars around the world, the book War is the same everywhere by the famous journalist and writer Slavenka Drakulić brings a series of essays about the war that were published mainly in foreign publications from 1991 to the present day.

These essays will expose you to a whole range of emotions and make you think about how is it possible that, with so much technological and scientific progress, we cannot possibly eradicate war and killing. Dynamically and literary written, these texts open up a series of war situations seen from the so-called frog's perspective, from the point of view of ordinary people.

There are refugees trying to find their way in a foreign country where they are not welcome after the war, mothers consumed by anticipation because they don't know if their sons have died or if they will return anyway, raped women who don't want to remain silent, circumstances that turn ordinary people into cruel criminals, the role of the media in understanding war events...