BOOK GIVES CLUES TO WAR'S DEAD.(MAIN)

Byline: JOE STANGE Associated Press

ST. LOUIS -- At the local Red Cross office, there's a history book sent from the other side of the world. Few want to open it because the pages document a bloody chapter of history few want to revisit.

The ``Book of Personal Belongings,'' two volumes thick, is filled with thousands of photographs of lost possessions. Everything is soiled with dirt: clothing, jewelry, combs, Polaroids. The possessions belonged to the dead, and the dirt came from mass graves.

The book was sent to the United States in a Red Cross experiment to aid in the accounting of the 18,000 people missing from the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina during …