While tourists sunned themselves on Italian beaches only an hour’s flight away and Europe enjoyed the Barcelona Olympics, Kemal was imprisoned in Omarska concentration camp with his brother and thousands of other innocent Muslims.

This was the reality of ethnic cleansing: two minutes alotted to each inmate for a meal of boiling watery soup once a day; half an hour for the whole camp to use the lavatory — while former classmates and work colleagues-turned-executioners terrorised the camp. Every evening there were murders: petty local feuds resolved at the hands of the Serbian guards.

Somehow, Kemal clung to his dignity - and life — and this is his testimony. A moving, terrifying story told with heart-rending honesty, it is a candid look at humanity and into abyss of true evil.

But ultimately this is a philosophical and inspiring story of the strength of character in insufferable circumstances. It is the first comprehensive record by a survivor of a modern holocaust during one of the bleakest periods in European history.