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Sarajevo's Holiday Inn on the frontline of politics and war

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sarajevo's Holiday Inn on the frontline of politics and war/ by Kenneth Morrison.
Author:	Morrison, Kenneth.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	xx, 248 p. :ill., digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Hotels - History - 20th century. - Bosnia and Herzegovina -
Subject:	Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Buildings, structures, etc. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57718-4
ISBN:	9781137577184

Sarajevo's Holiday Inn on the frontline of politics and war
Morrison, Kenneth.

Sarajevo's Holiday Inn on the frontline of politics and war[electronic resource] /by Kenneth Morrison. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xx, 248 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9781137577184

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-57718-4doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

1109239
Holiday Inns, Inc.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

1109241
Hotels
--History--Bosnia and Herzegovina--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

1109240
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
--Buildings, structures, etc.

LC Class. No.: DR1776.8.H65 / M67 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 949.74203

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