more clearly in order to obtain further sequences of letters but all this has produced is a sad child copy of an ancient box hundreds of thousands of books were in circulation in classical times and this is all that remains of them. sarajevo lost its box not as a result of a natural disaster but through a horrific war. in august one thousand nine hundred two the bosnian serb army shelled the national library of bosnia and herzegovina destroying it completely. within the lives of the of the serbs not only had their sights set on the city's inhabitants of living they also deliberately wanted to obliterate sarajevo's cultural history you know move all the of the.