| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “Balkans”
books tagged “Balkans”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identityby James Pettifer, Miranda VickersISBN 081478805X (0-8147-8805-X)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identity'More editions of Albania: From Anarchy to Balkan Identity:
Another Fool in the Balkans: In the Footsteps of Rebecca Westby Tony WhiteISBN 1860111513 (1-86011-151-3)
Softcover, Cadogan Guides
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Fool in the Balkans: In the Footsteps of Rebecca West'More editions of Another Fool in the Balkans: In the Footsteps of Rebecca West:
Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to Ethnic Warby Sabrina Petra RametISBN 0813325595 (0-8133-2559-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to Ethnic War'More editions of Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to Ethnic War:
-
Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevicby Sabrina P. RametISBN 0813339057 (0-8133-3905-7)
Softcover, Westview Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic'Book summary:The fourth edition of this critically acclaimed work includes a new chapter, a new epilogue, and revisions throughout the book. Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavias political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, while the federal system and multiethnic fabric laid down fault lines, the final crisis was sown in the failure to resolve the legitimacy question, triggered by economic deterioration, and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicians bent on powereither within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an ethnically cleansed Greater Serbia. With her detailed knowledge of the area and extensive fieldwork, Ramet paints a strikingly original picture of Yugoslavias demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.[via]More editions of Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic:
-
Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the War for Kosovoby Sabrina P. RametISBN 0813390346 (0-8133-9034-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the War for Kosovo'Book summary:The third edition of this critically acclaimed work includes three new chapters and a new epilogue, as well as revisions throughout the book. Sabrina Ramet, a veteran observer of the Yugoslav scene, traces the steady deterioration of Yugoslavias political and social fabric in the years since 1980, arguing that, whatever the complications entailed in the national question, the final crisis was triggered by economic deterioration, shaped by the federal system itself, and pushed forward toward war by Serbian politicians bent on power -- either within a centralized Yugoslavia or within an ethnically cleansed Greater Serbia. The book sheds light on the contributions made by Croatian naivete and Western diplomatic bungling to the tragedy in Bosnia, discusses the course of the Serbian Insurrectionary War in both Croatia and Bosnia, and devotes a chapter to examining the separate paths of Slovenia and Macedonia, before turning to an assessment of the record in post-Dayton Bosnia and Serb Albanian frictions in Kosovë during 1989-98. Chapters on the primary religious associations and on the rock scene help to set the political developments in perspective. With her detailed knowledge of the organic connections between politics, culture, and religion, Ramet paints a strikingly original picture of Yugoslavias demise and the emergence of the Yugoslav successor states.[via]More editions of Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the War for Kosovo:
-
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through Historyby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0312424930 (0-312-42493-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History'Book summary:From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare now sweeping Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy.
This enthralling and often chilling political travelogue fully deciphers the Balkans' ancient passions and intractable hatreds for outsiders. For as Kaplan travels among the vibrantly-adorned churches and soul-destroying slums of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, he allows us to see the region's history as a time warp in which Slobodan Milosevic becomes the reincarnation of a fourteenth-century Serbian martyr; Nicolae Ceaucescu is called "Drac," or "the Devil"; and the one-time Soviet Union turns out to be a continuation of the Ottoman Empire. [via]
More editions of Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History:
- Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History: ISBN 0679749810 (0-679-74981-0)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History: ISBN 0312087012 (0-312-08701-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History: ISBN 0312424930 (0-312-42493-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
- Balkan Ghosts : A Journey Through History: ISBN 0679749810 (0-679-74981-0)
-
Balkan Odysseyby David OwenISBN 0151002215 (0-15-100221-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Odyssey'Book summary:FIRST EDITION BOOK [via]
More editions of Balkan Odyssey:
-
Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold Warby Susan L. WoodwardISBN 0815795130 (0-8157-9513-0)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War'Book summary:The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991-92 brought about the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, atrocities on massive scale, and a new term, "ethnic cleansing", for the tactics of nationalist civil war. The failure of Western action to prevent the spread of violence or to negotiate peace disheartened Europeans in their drive to greater unity and turned the euphoria about the "new world order" into cynicism about US leadership. On their own, and as a warning of similar conflicts yet to come, the Yugoslav wars present the first major challenge to US foreign policy after the Cold War. Why did the Yugoslav state break up? And why did the break-up lead to war? In this book, Susan Woodward analyzes the causes of the Yugoslav wars and argues that focusing on ancient ethnic hatreds and military aggression misunderstands nationalism in post-communist states. [via]
More editions of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War:
The Balkan Trilogyby Olivia ManningISBN 0140059369 (0-14-005936-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Balkan Trilogy'
The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution, and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyondby Andre GerolymatosISBN 0465027326 (0-465-02732-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution, and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond'More editions of The Balkan Wars: Conquest, Revolution, and Retribution from the Ottoman Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond:
The Balkans: A Short Historyby Mark MazowerISBN 081296621X (0-8129-6621-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Balkans: A Short History'Book summary:Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires--from the Byzantine to the Habsburg and Ottoman--the Balkans are often called Europe's tinderbox and a seething cauldron of ethnic and religious resentments.
Much has been made of the Balkans' deeply rooted enmities. The recent destruction of the former Yugoslavia was widely ascribed to millennial hatreds frozen by the Cold War and unleashed with the fall of communism. In this brilliant account, acclaimed historian Mark Mazower argues that such a view is a dangerously unbalanced fantasy. A landmark reassessment, The Balkans rescues the region's history from the various ideological camps that have held it hostage for their own ends, not least the need to justify nonintervention. The heart of the book deals with events from the emergence of the
nation-state onward. With searing eloquence, Mazower demonstrates that of all the gifts bequeathed to the region by modernity, the most dubious has been the ideological weapon of romantic nationalism that has been used again and again by the power hungry as an acid to dissolve the bonds of centuries of peaceful coexistence. The Balkans is a magnificent depiction of a vitally important region, its history and its prospects. [via]More editions of The Balkans: A Short History:
-
The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999by Misha GlennyISBN 0140233776 (0-14-023377-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999'Book summary:The history of the Balkan states, like that of so much of the world, has for centuries been marked by ethnocidal fracases, savage wars of conquest, and periods of eerie calm. The mountainous region's shifting alliances and divisions have long puzzled outside observers, writes journalist Misha Glenny, the author of The Fall of Yugoslavia: "For many decades, Westerners gazed on these lands as if [they were] an ill-charted zone separating Europe's well-ordered civilization from the chaos of the Orient."
Those outsiders, Glenny suggests, have been the source of much of the Balkans' misery. In only the last two centuries, the territory has been contested by the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, the Third Reich, and the Allies, all of whom exploited and exacerbated existing ethnic conflict. (The Nazi occupiers of Croatia, he writes, even had to rein in the fascist Ustase militia for fear that their campaign against Serbs and Muslims would only strengthen resistance to their puppet government.) And, he continues, attempts to quell the recent conflict in Bosnia have created problems of their own. He argues that war will break out anew the moment international troops are withdrawn and that the Dayton Agreement is too "full of anomalies and frictions" to stand. The intervention in Kosovo has been no better, he adds, and the Allies' misguided efforts are sure to yield only further bloodshed if the only objective is to remove Slobodan Milosevic from power. "Should the West fail to address the effects, not merely of a three-month air war in 1999, but of 120 years of miscalculation and indifference since the Congress of Berlin, then there will be little to distinguish NATO's actions from any of its great-power predecessors," Glenny concludes.
Glenny's provocative book sheds much light on recent Balkan history--and on the region's likely future. --Gregory McNamee [via]
More editions of The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999:
-
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslaviaby Rebecca West, Christopher HitchensISBN 014310490X (0-14-310490-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Lamb And Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia'Book summary:Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is a genre-bending masterwork written in elegant prose. But what makes it so unlikely to be confused with any other book of history, politics, or culture--with, in fact, any other book--is its unashamed depth of feeling: think The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire crossed with Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. West visited Yugoslavia for the first time in 1936. What she saw there affected her so much that she had to return--partly, she writes, because it most resembled "the country I have always seen between sleeping and waking," and partly because "it was like picking up a strand of wool that would lead me out of a labyrinth in which, to my surprise, I had found myself immured." Black Lamb is the chronicle of her travels, but above all it is West following that strand of wool: through countless historical digressions; through winding narratives of battles, slavery, and assassinations; through Shakespeare and Augustine and into the very heart of human frailty.
West wrote on the brink of World War II, when she was "already convinced of the inevitability of the second Anglo-German war." The resulting book is colored by that impending conflict, and by West's search for universals amid the complex particulars of Balkan history. In the end, she saw the region's doom--and our own--in a double infatuation with sacrifice, the "black lamb and grey falcon" of her title. It's the story of Abraham and Isaac without the last-minute reprieve: those who hate are all too ready to martyr the innocent in order to procure their own advantage, and the innocent themselves are all too eager to be martyred. To West, in 1941, "the whole world is a vast Kossovo, an abominable blood-logged plain." Unfortunately, little has happened since then to prove her wrong. --Mary Park [via]
More editions of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia:
Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosniaby Chuck SudeticISBN 0140286810 (0-14-028681-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia'More editions of Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia:
Bosnia: A Short Historyby Noel MalcolmISBN 0814755615 (0-8147-5561-5)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bosnia: A Short History'Book summary:This updated edition of Noel Malcolm's highly-acclaimed Bosnia: A Short History provides the reader with the most comprehensive narrative history of Bosnia in the English language. Malcolm examines the different religious and ethnic inhabitants of Bosnia, a land of vast cultural upheaval where the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans, and the Austro-Hungarians overlapped. Clarifying the various myths that have clouded the modern understanding of Bosnia's past, Malcolm brings to light the true causes of the country's destruction. This expanded edition of Bosnia includes a new epilogue by the author examining the failed Vance-Owen peace plan, the tenuous resolution of the Dayton Accords, and the efforts of the United Nations to keep the uneasy peace.
What went wrong in the country where Christians and Muslims mingled and tolerated each other for over five centuries? It was a land with a vibrant political and cultural history, unlike any other in Europe, where great powers and religions-the empires of Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans; the faiths of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam overlapped and combined. In this first English-language history of Bosnia, Noel Malcolm provides a narrative chronicle of the country from its beginnings to its tragic end. Clarifying the various myths that have clouded the modern understanding of Bosnia's past, Malcolm brings to light the true causes of the country's destruction: the political strategy of the Serbian leadership, the conflict between the city and the countryside, the fatal inaction and miscalculations of Western politicians. Putting the Bosnia war into perspective, this volume celebrates the complex history of a country whose past, as well as its future, has been all but erased. At last, here is the guide for the general reader seeking a comprehensive and accessible account of the war in the former Yugoslavia.
Table of Contents
A Note on Names and Pronunciations
[via]
Maps
Introduction
1. Races, myths and origins: Bosnia to 1180
2. The medieval Bosnian state, 1180-1463
3. The Bosnian Church
4. War and the Ottoman system, 1463-1606
5. The Islamicization of Bosnia
6. Serbs and Vlachs
7. War and politics in Ottoman Bosnia, 1606-1815
8. Economic life, culture and society in Ottoman Bosnia, 1606-1815
9. The Jews and the Gypsies of Bosnia
10. Resistance and reform, 1815-1878
11. Bosnia under Austro-Hungarian rule, 1878-1914
12. War and the kingdom: Bosnia 1914-1941
13. Bosnia and the second world war, 1941-1945
14. Bosnia in Titoist Yugoslavia, 1945-1989
15. Bosnia and the death of Yugoslavia: 1989-1992
16. The destruction of Bosnia: 1992-1993
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
IndexMore editions of Bosnia: A Short History:
-
The Bridge on the Drinaby Ivo AndricISBN 0226020452 (0-226-02045-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bridge on the Drina'Book summary:The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history.[via]
"No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman history exists, nor do I know of any work of fiction that more persuasively introduces the reader to a civilization other than our own. It is an intellectual and emotional adventure to encounter the Ottoman world through Andric's pages in its grandiose beginning and at its tottering finale. It is, in short, a marvelous work, a masterpiece, and very much sui generis. . . . Andric's sensitive portrait of social change in distant Bosnia has revelatory force."William H. McNeill, from the introduction
"The dreadful events occurring in Sarajevo over the past several months turn my mind to a remarkable historical novel from the land we used to call Yugoslavia, Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina."John M. Mohan, Des Moines Sunday Register
Born in Bosnia, Ivo Andric (1892-1975) was a distinguished diplomat and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. His books include The Damned Yard: And Other Stories, and The Days of the Consuls.More editions of The Bridge on the Drina:
-
Cafe Europa: Life After Communismby Slavenka DrakulicISBN 0140277722 (0-14-027772-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cafe Europa: Life After Communism'Book summary:One of Eastern Europe's most acclaimed writers offers a brilliant work of political reportage--filtered through her own experience--which shows that Europe is still a divided continent, with the East separated--and ostracized--from the West by prejudice and intolerance. [via]
More editions of Cafe Europa: Life After Communism:
The Destruction of Yugoslavia : Tracing the Breakup, 1980-1992by Branka MagasISBN 086091593X (0-86091-593-X)
Softcover, Routledge
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Destruction of Yugoslavia : Tracing the Breakup, 1980-1992'More editions of The Destruction of Yugoslavia : Tracing the Breakup, 1980-1992:
The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Centuryby John V. A. FineISBN 0472081497 (0-472-08149-7)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century'More editions of The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century:
- The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century: ISBN 0472100254 (0-472-10025-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Michigan Pr - The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century: ISBN 0472081497 (0-472-08149-7)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
- The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century: ISBN 0472100254 (0-472-10025-4)
Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasusby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0375705767 (0-375-70576-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus'Book summary:The master of the hardheaded travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan returns with a book on what he calls "the New Near East," an area stretching from the Balkans to Central Asia that "might become the seismograph of world politics" in the new century. That doesn't sound like good news: "The pitiless history of the Near East [is] dominated by marauding armies and earthquakes while peace treaties have merely formalized temporary stalemates on the ground." Kaplan has made a career of writing about the world's trouble spots "without illusions"--his books Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth are at once influential and pessimistic.
Eastward to Tartary is a fascinating exploration of places Kaplan has not written about in depth before: "Third World Europe" (Romania and Bulgaria), Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and the confusing conglomeration of countries and peoples in the Caucasus. Smart observations leap off almost every page. "In every Arab city I have ever visited, people were polite and honest, running after you to return a loose coin you have left at a soft-drinks stand," he writes. So why hasn't democracy taken hold in the Islamic world? "The very perfection of the Islamic belief system begot a naive absolutism that made the compromises of normal political life impossible." In an aside on ancient Assyria, Kaplan notes, "The theme is always the same: Highly militarized and centralized states and empires, so indomitable in one decade or generation, hack themselves to pieces or are themselves conquered in another." Then he reminds readers that Assyria once bestrode present-day Iraq and Syria--a "hauntingly appropriate" coincidence. And surprising facts abound: "Turkey represents the most stable governmental dynasty in world history, with the Turkish soldiery able to trace the roots of its power to the Roman emperors." Fans of Kaplan's previous books won't want to miss this one, and neither will new readers interested in this part of the world. --John J. Miller [via]
More editions of Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus:
The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan Warby Misha GlennyISBN 0140235868 (0-14-023586-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War'Book summary:This eyewitness account looks at the genesis and execution of the first war in Europe since 1948. The book is highly personal and descriptive as well as analytical - explaining the complex relationship between the various nationalities, focusing on the Serbs and the Croats. [via]
More editions of The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War:
- The Fall of Yugoslavia : The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140257713 (0-14-025771-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140172882 (0-14-017288-2)
Hardcover, Penguin - The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140234152 (0-14-023415-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Books - The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140235868 (0-14-023586-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
- The Fall of Yugoslavia : The Third Balkan War: ISBN 0140257713 (0-14-025771-3)
The Fixer : A Story from Sarajevoby Joe SaccoISBN 1896597602 (1-896597-60-2)
Hardcover, Drawn & Quarterly Publications
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fixer : A Story from Sarajevo'More editions of The Fixer : A Story from Sarajevo:
The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkansby Simon WinchesterISBN 0060954949 (0-06-095494-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans'Book summary:Simon Winchester, a British newspaper reporter for 30 years and the author of 13 books (including The Professor and the Madman), has turned his attention to the Balkans, an area he visited years ago on a road trip from Vienna to Istanbul--a journey he retraced in the spring of 1999. The Fracture Zone describes both of those trips, concentrating on the history and character of the region more than the recent war and its aftermath. Winchester has spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent, but his more recent occupations as historian and a writer for Condé Nast Traveler are in evidence here. Winchester's angle on the Balkans is unique and well written: those who have been bewildered at best and bored at worst by the Balkan conflict may find that The Fracture Zone captures their interest better than hundreds of news accounts of war atrocities. "Why is there, and seemingly always has been, this dire inevitability about the Balkans being so fractious and unsettled a corner of the world?" Winchester wonders aloud. That eternal question continues to plague world statesmen and, though not fully answered here, affords the opportunity for an interesting exploration. [via]
More editions of The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans:
The General of the Dead Armyby Ismail KadareISBN 1860466443 (1-86046-644-3)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The General of the Dead Army'Book summary:Book is in excellent condition with just minor wear to edges of dust cover [via]
More editions of The General of the Dead Army:
The General of the Dead Armyby Kadare IsmailISBN 1566636841 (1-56663-684-1)
Softcover, New Amsterdam Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The General of the Dead Army'More editions of The General of the Dead Army:
High Albaniaby M. E. DurhamISBN 0807070351 (0-8070-7035-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'High Albania'More editions of High Albania:
High Albania: A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odysseyby Edith Durham, M. E. DurhamISBN 184212207X (1-84212-207-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'High Albania: A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odyssey'More editions of High Albania: A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odyssey:
History of the Balkansby Barbara JelavichISBN 0521252490 (0-521-25249-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Balkans'More editions of History of the Balkans:
-
History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuriesby Barbara JelavichISBN 0521274583 (0-521-27458-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries'Book summary:Volume I discusses the history of the major Balkan nationalities. It describes the differing conditions experienced under Ottoman and Habsburg rule, but the main emphasis is on the national movements, their successes and failures to 1900, and the place of events in the Balkans in the international relations of the day. [via]
More editions of History of the Balkans: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries:
History of the Balkans: Twentieth Centuryby Barbara JelavichISBN 0521274591 (0-521-27459-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Balkans: Twentieth Century'More editions of History of the Balkans: Twentieth Century:
-
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughedby Slavenka DrakulicISBN 0060975407 (0-06-097540-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed'Book summary:Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia. [via]
More editions of How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed:
The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslaviaby Brian HallISBN 1567920004 (1-56792-000-4)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia'More editions of The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia:
Kosovo: A Short Historyby Noel Malcolm, New York University Press StaffISBN 0060977752 (0-06-097775-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Kosovo: A Short History'Book summary:With a new introduction by the author.
[via]More editions of Kosovo: A Short History:
Kosovo: War and Revengeby Tim JudahISBN 0300097255 (0-300-09725-5)
Softcover, Yale University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Kosovo: War and Revenge'More editions of Kosovo: War and Revenge:
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of Warby Peter MaassISBN 0679763899 (0-679-76389-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War'Book summary:Peter Maass from the center of the nightmare in Bosnia, a war correspondent's montage of images - eerie, grotesque, ironic, angry, absurd. A Serb and Muslim, friends before the war, exchanging gossip via shortwave radio hours before they will try to kill each other. The Serbian president coolly denying reports of atrocities that have been witnessed by hundreds. A battlefield doctor performing miracles of surgery without anesthetic. Drivers without headlights gambling their lives in the darkness of no-man's-land while schoolchildren scamper across Sniper Alley. The author takes us with him into the minefields of modern war with a fierce, vivid, and personal book. [via]
More editions of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War:
Macedonia: Warlords And Rebels In The Balkansby John PhillipsISBN 0300102682 (0-300-10268-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Macedonia: Warlords And Rebels In The Balkans'More editions of Macedonia: Warlords And Rebels In The Balkans:
-
Masters of the Universe : NATO's Balkan Crusadeby Tariq Ali, Harold Pinter, Edward W. Said, Oskar Lafontaine, Yevgeni YevtushenkoISBN 1859842690 (1-85984-269-0)
Softcover, Verso Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of the Universe : NATO's Balkan Crusade'Book summary:The essays in this book on the Balkans, notes editor Tariq Ali in his introduction, "share one common approach to the region: all regard the break-up of Yugoslavia as a major European disaster." They are also uniformly and often vituperatively negative when it comes to NATO's 1999 war against Serbia. This event dominates the book, and the contributors have nothing good to say about it. The war gave a "green light" for Russia to assault Chechnya ("Could it be that this is Moscow's reward for helping to end the war in Kosovo?"), intensified poor relations between India and Pakistan, and made China more aggressive toward Taiwan and Tibet. Ali even asserts that the Chinese embassy in Belgrade--whose bombing was called an accident at the time--was "clearly included" on the NATO hit list. (Stranger still is Ali's approving quotation from Hitler's Mein Kampf on the subject of English media manipulation; his point is the moral equivalence of NATO's press relations and Nazi propaganda.)
All the views contained in Masters of the Universe? are way to the left of mainstream opinion; essay authors include Noam Chomsky and Edward Said. A spirit of anti-Americanism also pervades the book. Gilbert Achcar, for instance, notes "the current level of the U.S. defense budget corresponds rationally to the U.S. aspiration to imperial expansion and exclusive global hegemony." In other words, the United States fought in Kosovo because it wants to rule the world. Somewhat underscoring this claim, Ellen Meiksins Wood cites an ill-advised comment by President Clinton about Kosovo's importance: "If we're going to have a strong economic relationship that includes our ability to sell around the world, Europe has got to be a key.... That's what this Kosovo thing is all about." But, overall, the left-wing slant of the contributors of Masters of the Universe? makes it a less-than-balanced assessment of what has happened in the Balkans. --John J. Miller [via]
More editions of Masters of the Universe : NATO's Balkan Crusade:
My War Gone By, I Miss It Soby Anthony LoydISBN 0140298541 (0-14-029854-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'My War Gone By, I Miss It So'Book summary:My War Gone By, I Miss It So is a fiercely compelling and beautifully written personal account of the Bosnian war. The book alternates between Anthony Loyd's experiences in Bosnia and personal reflections of his time in the British army, his parents' divorce, his estrangement from his father, and his heroin addiction. Loyd describes the war at eye level: detailing the way bodies look after they've been shot or blown up, looking through the sights of a Muslim gun trained on a Serb soldier, traveling with a French mercenary, and fleeing from advancing Serbs during battle. The book is filled with firefights and mutilated corpses and is not for the squeamish. Bosnia was "a playground where the worst and most fantastic excesses of the human mind were acted out." For Loyd, the high of battle substituted for the high of heroin and vice versa: "I had come to Bosnia partially as an adventure. But after a while I got into the infinite death trip. I was not unhappy. Quite the opposite. I was delighted with most of what the war had offered me: chicks, kicks, cash and chaos; teenage punk dreams turned real and wreathed in gunsmoke."
Loyd's big break as a war correspondent came when another British journalist was wounded. He had arrived in Bosnia a war junkie, just trying to figure out what was going on and sell a few pictures to newspapers on the side. "Journalism in itself had never really interested me, I saw it only as a passport to war." He did not cover the war like most other journalists--he went right into battles. Loyd dismisses what other journalists did in Bosnia: staying at the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo, driving out to the UN headquarters in an armored car, and then returning to the relative safety of their hotel "to file their heartfelt vitriol with scarcely a hair out of place." Loyd, who did everything but carry a gun against the Serbs, scoffs at the idea of journalistic objectivity. "What good did reporting ever do in Bosnia anyway?" he sneers. In fact, he seems almost embarrassed not to be fighting himself. "I felt I was a pornographer, a voyeur come to watch." Lucky for the rest of us he did go to Bosnia. --Linda Killian [via]
More editions of My War Gone By, I Miss It So:
-
Safe Area Gorazdeby Joe SaccoISBN 1560974702 (1-56097-470-2)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Safe Area Gorazde'Book summary:Safe Area Gorazde is a harrowing documentary comic destined to become a classic of war reporting. In the waning days of the Bosnian war, Joe Sacco, the cartoonist behind the acclaimed Palestine, made several visits to Gorazde, a UN "safe area" that had been repeatedly attacked by Serb forces. He interviewed survivors of the Serb siege and assembled their recollections. Sacco depicts the atrocities of the war in simple, restrained panels, but his attention to detail is everywhere, from the accurate renderings of mortar scars on the landscape to the history lessons carefully embedded throughout the comic.
Sacco never descends into sensationalism or exploitation of the war's victims, but instead adopts a subjective gaze that places readers in hiding spots from which they can only catch glimpses of the murders and rapes. Sacco leaves the particulars of these crimes up to the imagination of his readers, which is appropriate enough given the unthinkable nature of what took place in Gorazde.
The real impact of Safe Area lies in Sacco's immersion in the daily life of Gorazde. While other journalists left Gorazde as soon as they had the clips they needed, Sacco lived in the town for weeks at a time, becoming a vicarious resident. Although the conflict was largely over by this point, Gorazde was still surrounded and Sacco was an eyewitness to his friends' struggle not only to survive but also to maintain their sanity.
Safe Area is not just a catalogue of horrors and a condemnation of international indifference; it's also a moving portrayal of the human capacity to endure almost any hardship. Sacco refuses to fall into any clichés about the triumph of the human spirit here--the people of Gorazde themselves reject such notions--but he does offer up Safe Area as a testament to its survival. --Peter Darbyshire, Amazon.ca [via]
Sarajevo, Exodus of a Cityby Dzevad Karahasan, Slobodan DrakulicISBN 1568360576 (1-56836-057-6)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sarajevo, Exodus of a City'More editions of Sarajevo, Exodus of a City:
-
Serbia under Milosevic: Politics in the 1990sby Robert ThomasISBN 1850653674 (1-85065-367-4)
Hardcover, C. Hurst & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Serbia under Milosevic: Politics in the 1990s'Book summary:This study examines, in the context of Serbia's political and cultural development, how in the late 1980s a faction within the Serbian Communist Party, led by Slobodon Milosevic, was able to exploit national and constitutional tensions within the former Yugoslavia in order to preserve its power. [via]
More editions of Serbia under Milosevic: Politics in the 1990s:
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslaviaby Tim JudahISBN 0300085079 (0-300-08507-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia'More editions of The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia:
- The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia: ISBN 0300071132 (0-300-07113-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr - The Serbs, History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia: ISBN 0300076568 (0-300-07656-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr - The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia: ISBN 0300085079 (0-300-08507-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
- The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia: ISBN 0300071132 (0-300-07113-2)
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the Westby David RieffISBN 0684819031 (0-684-81903-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West'More editions of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West:
This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peaceby Swanee Hunt, Bill ClintonISBN 0822333554 (0-8223-3355-4)
Hardcover, Duke Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace'More editions of This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace:
-
To End a Warby Richard HolbrookeISBN 0375753605 (0-375-75360-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'To End a War'Book summary:Between 1991 and 1995 over a quarter million people died during the conflict in the Balkan states. Meanwhile, the rest of Europe did not understand--or chose not to understand--what this war was about. The U.N. sent peacekeeping forces to aid the helpless, but would not assert its will to bring a peaceful end to the atrocities.
In a bold, contentious move by Clinton's first administration, a peace delegation was sent to Bosnia to secure an accord at any cost. A vocal proponent of this was Richard Holbrooke, then assistant secretary of state, who believed in hawkish diplomacy and a willingness to impose the moral will of America, if necessary. Holbrooke's belligerent pursuit of peace can be attributed in part to the tragedy of losing three of his team on the way through Sarajevo, making his quest for peace purposeful and passionate. In To End a War, an honest assessment and account of the events that followed, Holbrooke walks us through the complexities of the Dayton Accord from the perspective of the politicians and military men involved. It provides a fascinating insight into modern political diplomacy and the role of America in the international arena.
Without being a crusader, Holbrooke stresses throughout the need for responsible public service, subtly attacking some modern-day diplomats who use their positions irresponsibly. Ultimately he concludes that this peace process demonstrates the need for countries of power, such as the U.S., to take their of leadership roles seriously. To End a War is the definitive account of the peace process in the former Yugoslavia, important to anyone who wishes to understand the conflict in its entirety. --Jeremy Storey [via]
More editions of To End a War:
To End a War : Sarajevo to Daytonby Richard HolbrookeISBN 037550057X (0-375-50057-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'To End a War : Sarajevo to Dayton'More editions of To End a War : Sarajevo to Dayton:
To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslaviaby Michael ParentiISBN 1859843662 (1-85984-366-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia'More editions of To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia:
-
Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyondby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0312278357 (0-312-27835-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond'Book summary:On March 24, 1999, after talks at the French chateau of Rambouillet and further negotiations in Paris failed to produce an agreement between Kosovar and Serbian leaders, NATO commenced air strikes against Serbia. The Kosovo war would last 78 days. According to Michael Ignatieff, the war in Kosovo broke new ground. For those killed in the air strikes and the Kosovar Albanians murdered by Serbian police and paramilitaries, the war was real; yet it was "virtual" for the citizens of the NATO nations, who became spectators to events as "remote from their essential concerns as a football game." NATO combatants (who suffered no casualties) experienced the war as "split-second decisions made through the lens of a gun camera or over a video conferencing system." They rarely saw those they killed. Kosovo was a virtual war also in the political and legal sense, and in Virtual War Ignatieff explores the political and moral implications of what happens when war ceases to be fully real--when technological mastery removes death from the equation on one side.
Five characters figure prominently in Ignatieff's narrative of the war in Kosovo and its aftermath: Richard Holbrooke, the Clinton administration's special envoy for the Balkans; Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Louise Arbour, prosecutor of the War Crimes Tribunal; Robert Skidelsky, independent member of the British House of Lords and critic of the war; and Aleksa Djilas, Yugoslav opponent of the bombing campaign. Though Ignatieff supports the military intervention, his encounters with these figures, particularly the opponents of the war, put his convictions to the test. The differing viewponts lend a sense of balance and evenhandedness in what is ultimately a deeply moral work. "Virtual reality is seductive," Ignatieff writes. "We see ourselves as noble warriors and our enemies as despicable tyrants. We see a war as a surgical scalpel and not a bloodstained sword. In so doing we mis-describe ourselves as we mis-describe the instruments of death. We need to stay away from such fables of self-righteous invulnerability. Only then can we get our hands dirty. Only then can we do what is right." --Svenja Soldovieri [via]
More editions of Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond:
Waging Modern Warby Wesley K. ClarkISBN 1903985552 (1-903985-55-2)
Softcover, Public Affairs
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Waging Modern War'Book summary:General Wesley K Clark was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe between 1997 and 2000, and in Waging Modern War he recounts how he masterminded "Operation Allied Force", the ultimately successful war against Serbia in Kosovo throughout the early months of 1999. However, this is no simple-minded military memoir. As a West Point graduate and Rhodes Scholar, Clark was regarded as both an intellectual and a hawk, a difficult position that led to a series of awkward political encounters throughout the military campaign. One of the most absorbing dimensions of the book is Clark's description of how he
...was torn between the guidance and perspective I gained from NATO, heavily influenced by the Department of State, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Downing Street, and the White House, and what I would hear in my US military chain reporting to the Pentagon.
As Clark increasingly pushed for a land invasion, US political interference ensured that the completion of the operation became even more difficult. Clark's clashes with both Slobodan Milosevic and US Secretary of Defence William Cohen are both fascinating insights into contemporary realpolitik, while President Clinton remains a remarkably shadowy, ambivalent figure on the political margins of Clarke's book.Waging Modern War is also an ambitious statement on the changing nature of warfare. Clark argues that Kosovo represented "modern war--limited, carefully constrained in geography, scope, weaponry and effects. Every measure of escalation was excruciatingly weighed". This is a timely reassessment of the political and military shape of the world in the aftermath of the Cold War by someone operating at its very heart. Clark emerges as a quiet but determined and ferociously competitive figure, who has written a formidably detailed account of Europe's first, and hopefully last "modern war". --Jerry Brotton [via]
Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combatby Wesley K. ClarkISBN 1586481398 (1-58648-139-8)
Softcover, Public Affairs
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat'Book summary:The Supreme Allied Commander who directed and won NATO's war in Kosovo offers a unique behind-the-scenes look at how the war was actually fought, and explains the conflict's surprising implications for how war will be waged in the decades to come. Ugly, shocking, frightening, war came to Europe once more in March 1999. The world watched in dismay as Yugoslavia's military machine attacked its own citizens in the province of Kosovo. Pictures of refugees fleeing and stories of murder and rape flashed to the top of the news. But this time, the United States and its allies intervened. Using an innovative, high-technology air operation, NATO brought modern military power to bear against Serb forces in the field and the machinery of repression that backed them up. It was modern war-limited in scope, measured in effect, extraordinarily complex in execution. The American commander who oversaw this massive military effort and managed the often incompatible demands of NATO's nineteen governments was General Wesley K. Clark. In Waging Modern War, Clark recounts not only the events that led to armed conflict, but also the context within which he made the key strategic decisions. He also describes, for the first time, the personal conflict he felt as he walked the tightrope of high diplomacy and military strategy and navigated the crushing restraints of domestic politics. Laying out the new realities of war-fighting and war-planning, Clark reveals how the American military infrastructure will have to adapt if it is to meet new threats. This is the story of war today, and as it will be fought tomorrow. [via]
More editions of Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat:
- Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat: ISBN 158648043X (1-58648-043-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group - Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat: ISBN 0756765307 (0-7567-6530-7)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co - Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat: ISBN 1586481398 (1-58648-139-8)
Softcover, Public Affairs
- Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat: ISBN 158648043X (1-58648-043-X)
Winning Ugly: Nato's War to Save Kosovoby Ivo H. Daalder, Michael E. O'HanlonISBN 0815716974 (0-8157-1697-4)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Winning Ugly: Nato's War to Save Kosovo'More editions of Winning Ugly: Nato's War to Save Kosovo:
-
A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the "Ethnic Cleansing" of Bosniaby Roy GutmanISBN 0020329954 (0-02-032995-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the "Ethnic Cleansing" of Bosnia'Book summary:A compilation of 1993 Pulitizer Prize-winning reports from the front lines of Bosnia, by a foreign correspondent for Newsday, provides firsthand evidence of the genocide perpetrated against Bosnia's Muslim population. [via]
More editions of A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the "Ethnic Cleansing" of Bosnia:
Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Countryby John R. LampeISBN 0521774012 (0-521-77401-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country'More editions of Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country:
- Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country: ISBN 0521773571 (0-521-77357-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country: ISBN 0521467055 (0-521-46705-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country: ISBN 0521774012 (0-521-77401-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
- Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Country: ISBN 0521773571 (0-521-77357-1)
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nationby Laura Silber, Allan Little, British Broadcasting CorporationISBN 1575000059 (1-57500-005-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation'Book summary:"The most authoritative account in English or any other language about how the war began."The Washington Post Book World. "An essential resource for anyone of the conflict."The New York Times Book Review.[via]More editions of Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation:
Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequencesby Christopher BennettISBN 0814712886 (0-8147-1288-6)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequences'More editions of Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequences:
Spanish
Guerra Virtualby Michael IgnatieffISBN 8449313775 (84-493-1377-5)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Guerra Virtual'More editions of Guerra Virtual:
-
La Historiadora / The Historianby Eduardo G. Murillo, Elizabeth KostovaISBN 8495618877 (84-95618-87-7)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'La Historiadora / The Historian'Book summary:Elizabeth Kostova; La Historiadora: This edition published by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company (Inc.), New York, New York, USA. [via]
More editions of La Historiadora / The Historian:
-
Rumbo a Tartaria/Eastward to Tartaryby Robert D. KaplanISBN 8466601147 (84-666-0114-7)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rumbo a Tartaria/Eastward to Tartary'More editions of Rumbo a Tartaria/Eastward to Tartary:
Albanian
Gjenerali I Ushtrise Se Vdekurby Ismail KadareISBN 9992745533 (99927-45-53-3)
Hardcover, Onufri
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gjenerali I Ushtrise Se Vdekur'More editions of Gjenerali I Ushtrise Se Vdekur:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}