Madness Visible: A Memoir of War - Softcover

"Devastating...A first hand account of a region's spiral into madness' --Publisher's Weekly (starred, lead review)

"Wholly memorable, entirely unsettling: one of the best piece of reportage to come from the Balkan abattoir" --Kirkus (starred review)

"Janine DiGiovani has described war in a way that almost makes me think it never needs to be described again. This is it, modern war: If you don't want to know what it's really like, don't pick up this book. More than a book about war, however, this is a book about the human race, in all its anguishing complexity. I can honestly say that I finished this book a wiser, more compassionate person than when I started." --Sebastian Junger

"Modern war has become ever more Satanic, and never more so than in the Balkans in the 1990s. Janine di Giovanni is our Virgil, guiding us through the circles of that man-made hell: Sarajevo, Kosovo, Pristina. Her depictions of the fighting recall the best correspondence to come out of the Spanish Civil War. Her portraits of the victims are moving, but she really shines in bringing to chilling life the perpetrators of "ethnic cleansing" -- today's euphemism for genocide. Anyone who still believes, despite ample evidence to the contrary, that intelligence, education, prosperity and cultural refinement immunize the human soul to evil must read her descriptions of professors, psychiatrists, and other intellectuals who chose to become monsters on the same level as the Nazis. If you read no other book about the Balkan wars, read this one. " --Phil Caputo

“Janine di Giovanni is superb–an extraordinarily brave war correspondent and a wonderful writer as well. What a combination!” --William Shawcross

"Janine di Giovanni took ten years out of her life to report on all those terrible wars in the former Yugoslavia. She tells us what it was really like on the frontline -- the squalor, the terror, the barbarity, and the randomness of death. But there was also comradeshiop, hope, glory and, occasionally, the triumph of the human spirit." --Phillipp Knightley, author of The First Casualty: The War Correspondent As Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo  

Janine di Giovanni is a senior foreign correspondent for The Times of London and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. She is the recipient of a 2000 National Magazine Award for her reporting from the Balkans, two Amnesty International awards for war reporting from Sierra Leone and Kosovo, and Granada Television's Foreign Correspondent of the Year award for being one of the few reporters to witness the fall of Grozny, Chechnya. She has been the focus of an award-winning documentary about women war correspondents, No Man's Land. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received an M.F.A. in fiction. She lives in Paris with her husband, the French reporter Bruno Girodon, and their baby son, Luca.