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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254781803321

Autore

Morrison Kenneth

Titolo

Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn on the Frontline of Politics and War / / by Kenneth Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137577184

1137577185

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 248 p. 14 illus., 5 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

940

Soggetti

Europe - History

Military history

Civilization - History

European History

Military History

Cultural History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Martin Bell -- Introduction -- 1. Hotels as Strategic Assets, Prestige Targets and Sanctuaries -- 2. Press Hotels in Conflict Zones -- 3. The Construction of Sarajevo’s ‘Olympic Hotel’ -- 4. Politics Comes to the Holiday Inn -- 5. In Residence: Radovan Karadžić and the SDS -- 6. Crossing the Rubicon: The Outbreak of War in Sarajevo -- 7. A New Reality, a New Clientele -- 8. The Hazards of Living on the Frontline -- 9. Hostelry in Extremis -- 10. The Targeting of the Holiday Inn -- 11. The Rebirth and Demise of Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn.

Sommario/riassunto

Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn on the Frontline of Politics and War charts the rich history of the city’s famous Holiday Inn hotel. Describing in detail the tumultuous events that took place within its walls and in its immediate environs, this book explores the opening of the building in advance of the 1984 Winter Olympics through the early 1990s when the hotel was utilized by political elites through to the siege of Sarajevo, when the hotel became the main base for foreign correspondents. Kenneth Morrison draws upon a plethora of primary and secondary



sources, and includes extensive interviews with many participants in the drama that was played out within the confines of the hotel, contextualizing the case of the Holiday Inn by analyzing how hotels are utilized in times of conflict. .