The year 1992, scheduled to be a milestone on the road to European unity, saw Sarajevo and other European cities bombarded slowly to pieces and their inhabitants starved before the TV eyes of the world. It saw two million Bosnian Muslims threatened with Europe s first genocide since the Second World War; most of them already driven from their homes by massacre, rape and terror. It saw Bosnia s legal, multi-ethnic government treated as a mere warring party and pressed to surrender by Western governments eager for peace at any price. And it also saw a liberal and left opinion in the West unable...