Peress spent three months in central Bosnia, Tuzla, Mostar, and Sarajevo between March and September 1993. His photographs show the pain, death, and destruction caused by the war there. In the introduction, he writes, 'Here starts the curse of history, an illness that may not be so personal anymore. It may be a very European disease, after all, with a double-edged nature: you are damned if you remember—condemned to re-live, re-enact the images of your fathers; you are damned if you don't—condemned to repeat their hypocrisy.'

First edition; (365 x 278 mm, 14¼ x 11 in); black-and-white photographs, texts by François Hers, Philip Brookman, Walter Keller, design by Yolanda Cuomo, light toning to pages and edges; grey endpapers, black and white illustrated paper-covered boards, light toning, light wear to extremities, an excellent copy; [168]pp.