On December 14, 1994, Bruce Dickinson played the most dangerous gig of his life. For the previous 19 months, the city of Sarajevo, capital of the recently-independent state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, had been under siege from Serbian troops as part of an attempt to crush the state that had voted for independence and broken away from them in February 1992. It was a struggle that would last nearly four years – three years longer than the infamous siege of Stalingrad in World War Two – and leave some 14,000 people, many of them civilians, dead. The complex and fragile nature of Eastern European politics meant that the United Nations – including troops from Great Britain, America and Germany – soon became involved in an attempt to navigate the peace process. Hardly surprising, when the war was...
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