This history of the city of Sarajevo during the Second World War examines the strategies of various ethnic and religious minorities in dealing with the brutal Ustasha regime. Greble (history, City College of New York) presents a clear and dramatic narrative outlining the lengths to which civic and religious leaders went to preserve some of the unique character of their city. The work includes numerous maps and illustrations.

Portraits of a city on the eve of war --Autonomy compromised : Nazi occupation and the Ustasha regime -- Conversion and complicity : ethnically cleansing the nation -- Between identities : the fragile bonds of community -- Dilemmas of the new European order : the Muslim question and the Yugoslav Civil War -- An uprising in the making -- The final months : from total war to communist victory -- The sympathetic city : community and identity in wartime Sarajevo.