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OTHER PRESS INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GUIDE MISSION STATEMENT OTHER PRESS publishes literature from America and around the world that repre- sents writing at its best. We feel that the art of storytelling has become paramount today in challenging readers to see and think differently. We know that good stories are rare to come by: they should retain the emotional charge of the best classics while speaking to us about what matters at present, without complacency or self-indulgence. Our list is tailored and selective, and includes everything from top-shelf literary fiction to cutting-edge nonfiction—whether it’s political, social, or cultural—as well as a small collection of groundbreaking professional titles. Judith Gurewich Publisher OTHER PRESS
JULIAN BORGER IN PURSUIT OF MONSTERS Fifty years after the Nuremberg trials, the worst genocidal atrocities in Europe since World War II took place during the Balkan Wars, when thousands of Bosnian minorities were massacred. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was formed in 1993, at the height of the wars, to bring justice to those who committed crimes against humanity, and created a list of 161 war criminals. Initially the ICTY was controversial, underfunded, and largely unrecognized—the major powers wanted to obtain justice, yet no one was willing to get their hands dirty. Eventually, because of the relentlessness of the prosecutors, diplomats, and investigators of the ICTY, they received support from the British government, and a team of SAS agents was dispatched into the Balkans, on a manhunt that would last for more than a decade. Grippingly reconstructed by The Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Julian Borger, In Pursuit of Monsters investigates the heroes, villains, and wider international repercussions of the Bosnian genocide and its aftermath—from war criminals who perfectly embody the banality of evil, to determined ICTY investigators working on a shoestring budget, to politicians and diplomats who radically changed their own foreign policies. JULIAN BORGER was born in London in 1961. He is The Guardian’s diplomatic editor and writes its Global Security blog. He has covered more than a dozen wars, including the Bosnian conflict, while living in Sarajevo from 1994 to 1997. He joined The Guardian in 1993 from the BBC, after several years as a radio and television reporter in Africa, and has been a US correspondent for The Guardian since 1998. FALL 2014 Pages: 300 approx. Rights: World NONFICTION Agent: The Wylie Agency, Sarah Chalfant (schalfant@wylieagency.co.uk) OTHER PRESS • 2
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