Title

To end a war

Description

Richard Holbrooke's account of the negotiations to end the Balkan War.

Identifier

769940

037550057X

Creator

Holbrooke, Richard C

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1998

Program air date: July 26, 1998

Publisher

Random House

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers and flysheet: Japan--100 trips possible A and B. Germany--Sandy Berger's idea after Times Art. Sec. Warren Christ--small room behind ceremonial office. Bob Frasure's funeral daughter Sarah p 81. Your life with Averell Harriman. You say your wife Kati (374) participated directly--How. How did your son Anthony appear in the story after fall Srebrenica? Sr. Foreign Service--Brilliant means arrogant. Kofi Annan v. Bouros NATO v. U.N.. What was the contact group France/Ger./G.B./Russia. Principles committee. What is the Federation. Did you worry that this book might come back to haunt you with a future appointment. What did you do on a NATO expansion (9 week decision) p 60. Original trip to Yugoslavia in 1960--what are your memories. Mount Igman--the loss of 3 friends. Turning pt. Srebrenica--Dayton changed Europeans attitudes toward Clinton A. Carl Bildt--the U.S. Gov. Dept. a lot of "spilt blood" p 366. What is real politick--Nixon Kissinger Kennan--where do you stand. You never hear about women in regard to Bosnia. If you were going to send a friend over to Bosnia for a tour of what you experienced where would you send them? Who would you want them to meet? Dayton--most brutal bureaucratic effort ever involved in. Television in Yugoslavia created the "hatred." Ratko Mladic, Montenegrin Radovan Karadzic--leader of Bosnian Serbs. Muhamed Sacirbey--Bosnian Amb. to U.N. Izetbegovic--Bosnian President. Slobodan Milosevic--President of Serbia. Haris Silajdzic--Prime Minister of Bosnia Herzegovina. Franjo Tudjman--Croatian President. Tony Lake excluded you from Bosnia planning--talked to Vernon Jordan. Srebrenica--July 12-16, 1995 7,079 Muslims murdered. 7 points for settlement p. 78. Bull dozer Diplomat--Hol. by Frenchmen. You started keeping a journal as you approached Zagreb! What role did the press play in this story. Newsweek etc. photos of camps. Did you have a video recorder (Aug 1992). [What was your experience as a member of American team negotiating with N. Vietnamese 1968-69, 27 year old junior Foreign S. Officer.] I was opposed to air strips in Vietnam but for them when it [came] to the Bosnian Serbs. Dayton--Big Bang approach. Translator Btths--how many languages--The French Waitress Wicky-Packy's All Sports Bar. Rebecca West's--Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Robert Kaplan's--Balkan Ghosts a journey through history. Harold Nicholson's--Peace breaking 1919. W.H. Auden's--New Year Letter. Richard Holbrook's--Counsel to the President. Carl Bildt's--Memoirs. Henry Kissinger's--Diplomacy. [Jimmy Carter's--account of 13 days at Camp David. Cyrus Vance's--Hard Choices. William Quoudt--Camp David--Peacemaking and Politics passed out to team as we flew around Balkans.] Bernard-Henri Levy's Le Lys et la Cendre p 100. Kemal Kurspahic's As long as Sarajevo exists. Noel Malcolm's (1994) Bosnia: a short story. Warren Zimmerman's memoir p 24. John le Carre's The Secret Pilgrim --on way back to U.S. after deaths. James Baker's memoirs. Notes on back flysheet and free back endpaper: Strobe Talbot, Brooke Shearer, Tony Lahe, Joe Klein. John Kornblum's small informal team set-up to Bureaucratic log jams at State Dept. Kissinger regrets he ignored State--trips to Russia. What do you think of Shuttle diplomacy--How often did you do it. What's it like to deal with French. What role did Kofi Annan play in Bosnia. You say you believed in the U.N. but didn't want them to get too close to the negotiations. What are the proximity talks--Talked to J. Carter about Saddt & Begin. Trip to Gettysburg. Peacekeepers--IFOR--I was a maximalist, Pentagon --'minimalist'. Chirac--shed a tear at ceremony at Blair House. You asked Ron Brown to make trip to Bosnia. Why did you pick Dava Sobel's comment on the French p 315. Bags on tarmac into truck--move proved to be pathetic (294). Croats, Serbs, Bosnians. Scowcroft. Bush would say to me once a week. Tell me again what is this all about. Notes/Underlinings: Include details on Holbrooke's career, life, family, politics, public service, diplomacy, ethnic/social/cultural conflicts, history, Holebrook's interaction with world leaders.

Subject

"Holbrooke, Richard C., 1941-2010."

"Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Diplomatic history."

"Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Bosnia and Hercegovina."

"Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Personal narratives, American."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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