Cavanaugh, Douglas

Douglas Cavanaugh is an American expat who grew up in the state of Iowa. After several trips abroad in the early 1990s, he arrived in Croatia in 1996, not long after the country's Homeland War had ended, and just after the final shots in the neighboring country of Bosnia and Herzegovina had been fired. It was his earliest memories of Croatia's war-ravaged countryside that inspired the background for Douglas's novel, Into Hell's Fire. During his initial tour, he quickly realized that it was one thing to imagine such destruction while reading about it in print or viewing it on television, but it...