ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2004.
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. Into the Kosovo War / Stacy Sulliva

Njujork, SAD 2004. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, engleski jezik, XXI + 330 strana.
Knjiga je odlično očuvana
R18




`Thanks to years of reporting, Stacy Sullivan has managed to hunt down the inside story of how a Brooklyn roofer helped launch a guerrilla army in the Balkans. With her remarkable tale of gunrunning, intrigue, high politics, and murder, Sullivan has given us a work of contemporary history that reads more like a crime thriller. She has also offered a disturbing glimpse behind the scenes of one of the only wars ever waged on humanitarian grounds.`
— SAMANTHA POWER, PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING AUTHOR OF »`A PROBLEM FROM HELL`: AMERICA AND THE AGE OF GENOCIDE«




`Be Not Afraid is a war-reporting tour de force—tough, thorough, and gut-wrenching. In the tradition of J. Anthony Lukas`s Common Ground, Stacy Sullivan gives us an unforgettable character, the avenging Brooklyn émigré Florin Krasniqi, to capture the full emotional toll of a brutal war we only thought we understood.`
— TODD BALF, AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER »THE LAST RIVER« AND »THE DARKEST JUNGLE«



`Stacy Sullivan allows us to peer into the shadowy world of revolutionaries, gangsters, gunrunners, and war profiteers who work below the surface of every conflict. Her story is as timeless as it is compelling. She chronicles the awful machinery of war, the high idealism and base cynicism, the brutal politics and utopian visions, that propel young men into battlefields and often leave them broken and scarred. She captures, through her dogged reporting, the dark and frightening labyrinth of war.`
— CHRIS HEDGES, AUTHOR OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, »WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING«



---

AN INSIDER`S POWERFUL ACCOUNT OF HOW ALBANIANS LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES ORGANIZED, FUNDED, AND FOUGHT FOR THE KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY AND EVENTUALLY DREW AMERICA INTO FIGHTING ON THEIR BEHALF

FLORIN KRASNIQI IMMIGRATED TO the United States from Kosovo in 1988.by sneaking across the Mexican border in the trunk of a white Cadillac. Once in America, he started his own business, fell in love, married, and bought a house. But he did not forget the country he left behind. In 1996, when one of his cousins helped start the Kosovo Liberation Army in the hope of securing Kosovo`s independence, Florin chipped in to help.

Over the next two years, Florin helped direct a network of Albanian émigrés across the U.S., raising millions of dollars for the rebel force. Soon he began visiting gun shows across America and running weapons and other supplies to the rebels. All the while he was also lobbying some of Washington`s most powerful politicians. Eventually he helped recruit American volunteers, some of whom left schools and colleges in the New York area to fight for a homeland they hardly knew.

Be Not Afraid, For You Have Sons in America tells the remarkable story of how a small group of young men in Kosovo backed by a network of émigrés in the United States started a guerrilla army that lured the world`s most powerful military alliance into fighting their war and changed the course of history in the Balkans forever.