War Hotels

Kenneth Morrison & Abdallah El Binni Merrion Press €17

★★★★★

War Hotels is an engrossing exploration of hotels in wartime, told through the prism of the now iconic tourist hubs that were frequented by foreign correspondents, politicians and spies during conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Iraq, Bosnia, and here in Ireland.

Written by historian Kenneth Morrison and Lebanese filmmaker and journalist Abdallah El Binni, the book focuses on those hotels around the world – such as The Europa in Belfast, The Continental in Saigon and The Commodore in Beirut – that became closely associated with the brutal conflicts of which they were a part.

This extract looks at the historic

Holiday Inn in Sarajevo, which became a symbol of the war in Bosnia and the seige of Sarajevo, which began 30 y ears ago.