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Why is The Lazarus Covenant Relevant?  If you are interested in learning more about the setting, the organizations, events and issues found in The Lazarus Covenant, here are some links to interesting web sites and media stories.  A recommended follow-on Reading List is also provided below. 

War in The Balkans

• Balkan War Summary on Squidoo 
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Responding to Threats of Genocide (in the Balkans)
• Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Frontline, “Srebrenica: The Video of a Wartime Atrocity”
• OSI Forum: Then They Started Shooting—Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia
• Postcards from Hell: Ex-Yugoslavia Photojournal
• Remember Sarajevo, Photojournal by Roger Richards
• Photo of the Stari Most, Mostar (prior to being destroyed and rebuilt)
• Photo of The Destruction of the Stari Most (+ audio of Tito's funeral train)

The Catholic Church in Croatia

• The Pope in Croatia-1994
• The Pope in Croatia-1998
• The Catholic Church in Croatia
• The Zagreb Archdiocese
• Croatia: A Nation Forged in War, by Marcus Tanner
  

Nuclear Terrorism

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,  “Bin Laden and the Bomb”
• CBC News, “British nuclear plant 'loses' plutonium”
• Nuclear Control Institute, “The Nuclear Emergency Search Team”
• Nuclear Control Institute, “Can Terrorists Build Nuclear Weapons?”
• Graham Allison’s Nuclear Terrorism Website
• CNN, “’High Risk’ of WMD Attack in Decade”
  

Special Operations and Intelligence

• U.S. Special Operations Command
• Great Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS)
• Jane's
• STRATFOR
• Rewards for Justice
• Central Intelligence Agency
• EUFOR

Reading List

• Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War, by Peter Maass
• Blood and Vengeance: One Family’s Story of the War in Bosnia, by Chuck Sudetic.
• The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Tim Judah.
• My War Gone By, I Miss It So, by Andrew Lloyd.
• Bosnia: A Short History, by Noel Malcolm.
• Endgame, The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica: Europe’s Worst Massacre since World War II, by David Rohde.
• Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West, by David Reiff
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia, by Rebecca West.
• The Bridge on the Drina, by Ivo Andric.
• Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation, by Laura Silber and Allan Little
• War Hospital, by Sheri Fink
• Postcards From The Grave, by Emir Suljagic
• The Bridge Betrayed, by Michael Sells
• Al-Qaida’s Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network, by Evan Kohlmann
• Croatia, A Nation Forged in War, by Marcus Tanner

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Favorites

Newsroom

• 10x10™ ('ten by ten'): an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time.
• The Economist
• KCRW "To the Point"
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• BBC
• Financial Times
• International Herald Tribune
• PBS
• Global Policy Forum
• International Crisis Group
• Domovina Net
• Foreign Affairs Magazine
• The Newshour with Jim Lehrer

Of Interest

• WordCount™: an artistic experiment in the way we use language.
• World Citizen’s Guide (Compilation of Travel-related Reference Sites)
• Time Magazine’s 100 Best English Language Novels 1923-Present
• Lonely Planet Guide
• Rick Steves' Europe
• Doctors Without Borders
• Peter Bergen
• Janine di Giovanni
• Donatella Lorch
• Google Earth
• Earth Album
• John's Squidoo Lens on The Cuban Missile Crisis
  

Theme music from The Lazarus Covenant:

• Van Morrison

  • September Night

  • Higher than the World

  • Brown Eyed Girl

  • Queen of the Slipstream

 

• Coldplay
  • Speed of Sound

 

• Loreena McKennitt
  • Night Ride Across the Caucasus

 

• Leonard Cohen

• In My Secret Life

 

• Moby

• Extreme Ways

 

• Dido

• Thankyou

• Dead Can Dance
  • Yulunga
  • The Protagonist

 

• Nina Simone :: Sinnerman

 

• U2

• Miss Sarajevo

 

• Gregorian Chants (Benedictine Monks)

• Ave Maris Stella (Benedictine Nuns)

 

• Website Theme (Warpath)