History Is Not What Happened. It Is Who Survives To Tell It.

Historical fiction from the heart of the Yugoslav Wars — intimate stories of love, loss, and moral reckoning.

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Phil Murphy writes the wars history books leave out.

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Goran's Dilemma

A daughter. A father. A siege that will define them both.

Sarajevo, 1992. As the city falls under a brutal siege, a medical student must reckon with the genocidal role of her father. Based on a true father-daughter relationship, this is a timeless story of love discovered, doomed, and renewed amidst the human cost of history.

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The Pavelić Trap

A rookie journalist, a collapsing nation, and the dark secret of Yugoslavia's fall. Witness the human cost of history in this epic account of Sarajevo and Srebrenica.

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