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For the Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story - in pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/feb/20/library-sarajevo-in-pictures
Publisher: The Guardian
Date Written: 20/02/2012
Year Published: 2012
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
During the Bosnian war, a group of men and women risked their lives to rescue thousands of irreplaceable Islamic manuscripts -- and preserve a nation's history. Amid bullets and bombs, this handful of passionate book-lovers safeguarded more than 10,000 unique, hand-written antique books and documents -- the most important texts held by Sarajevo's Gazi Husrav Beg Library, founded in 1537.
As the 20th anniversary of the start of the siege of Sarajevo approaches, a documentary airing tonight on BBC4 tells the story of this extraordinary bid to protect a nation's history. Here are a few of the film's most striking images
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