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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
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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
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› 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:
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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
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› 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:
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through Historyby Robert D. KaplanISBN 0312424930 (0-312-42493-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› 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]
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Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold Warby Susan L. WoodwardISBN 0815795130 (0-8157-9513-0)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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› 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]
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999by Misha GlennyISBN 0140233776 (0-14-023377-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› 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]
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslaviaby Rebecca West, Christopher HitchensISBN 014310490X (0-14-310490-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› 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]
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Bosnia: A Short Historyby Noel MalcolmISBN 0814755615 (0-8147-5561-5)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› 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
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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
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Bosnian Chronicleby Ivo Andric, Joseph HitreckISBN 1559702362 (1-55970-236-2)
Softcover, Arcade Pub
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The Bridge on the Drinaby Ivo AndricISBN 0226020452 (0-226-02045-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› 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:
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Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transitionby Lenard J. CohenISBN 0813324777 (0-8133-2477-7)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition'Book summary:Struggling against high odds, Yugoslavia managed to survive from its inception in 1918 until the early 1990s. But now, tragic ethnic and regional conflicts have irrevocably fragmented the country. In his timely book, Lenard Cohen explores the original conception and motives underlying the Yugoslav idea, looking at the states major problems, achievements, and failures during its short and troubled history.Cohen answers a broad range of questions concerning contemporary Yugoslavia: How did the state plunge from its position as a positive model to an essentially negative case of socialist reform? What measures for recovery were proposed by the countrys ethnically and regionally segmented one-party elite? What were the reasons for the eventual abandonment of reform socialism, the elimination of the single partys monopoly, and the rapid delegitimation of the countrys federal political institutions? What programs have been offered by the noncommunist and born again communist leaders elected to power during the revival of multiparty pluralism in 1990? How did their efforts to achieve regional and ethnic sovereignty place the country in such a precarious and ultimately fatal position?The concluding chapters of the book offer an analysis of the causes and horrifying consequences of the military conflict and civil war from 1991 to 1994, including a discussion of the impotent efforts at peacekeeping, the dynamics of the complex and savage struggle in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and an examination of the problems faced by Yugoslavias successor states.[via]More editions of Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration and Balkan Politics in Transition:
The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essaysby Dubravka UgresicISBN 027101847X (0-271-01847-X)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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The Days of the Consulsby Ivo Andric, Celia HawkesworthISBN 1856100243 (1-85610-024-3)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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Death and the Dervishby Mesa Selimovic, Bogdan Rakic, Stephen M. DickeyISBN 0810112973 (0-8101-1297-3)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Destruction of Yugoslavia : Tracing the Breakup, 1980-1992by Branka MagasISBN 086091593X (0-86091-593-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Dictionary of the Khazarsby Milorad Pavic, Christina Pribicevic-ZoricISBN 0679724613 (0-679-72461-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dictionary of the Khazars'Book summary:A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book of knowledge of the Khazars, a people who flourished somewhere beyond Transylvania between the seventh and ninth centuries. Eschewing conventional narrative and plot, this lexicon novel combines the dictionaries of the world's three major religions with entries that leap between past and future, featuring three unruly wise men, a book printed in poison ink, suicide by mirrors, a chimerical princess, a sect of priests who can infiltrate one's dreams, romances between the living and the dead, and much more. [via]
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Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Wordsby Milorad PavicISBN 0394571835 (0-394-57183-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Divide and Fall?: Bosnia in the Annals of Partitionby Radha KumarISBN 185984183X (1-85984-183-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Eastern Approachesby MacLeanISBN 0140132716 (0-14-013271-6)
Softcover, Penguin Global
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eastern Approaches'Book summary:Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould... [via]
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Eastern Approaches: Essays on Asian Art and Archaeologyby T. S. MaxwellISBN 0195629256 (0-19-562925-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Encyclopedia of the Deadby Danilo Kis, Michael Henry HeimISBN 081011514X (0-8101-1514-X)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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The Fall of the New Class: A History of Communism's Self-Destructionby Milovan DjilasISBN 0679433252 (0-679-43325-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Milovan Djilas (1911-1995) was one of the most profoundly outspoken apostates of Communism. A loyal Stalinite and high-ranking official in the Yugoslav Party until the early 1950s, when he was ostracized for "revisionism" and eventually imprisoned for denouncing the Red Army's invasion of Hungary, he wrote one of the first internal critiques of the communist movement to be widely published, The New Class, describing how ideology was brutally imposed through bureaucratization and repression.
In this collection of thematically linked essays, Djilas returns to that theme, examining how the movement collapsed upon itself and reflecting on how he himself had come to reject its goals. "There is in each of us a Communist spirit," he writes, "hunger for fair dealing and social equality." But the world, he concluded, is simply not fair, and perfection, although it must be strived for, cannot be imposed upon humanity. Djilas had reservations about Westerners who criticized communism for its economic shortcomings; as a true insider, Djilas came to his understanding of its inherent flaws the hard way. [via]
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The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan Warby Misha GlennyISBN 0140235868 (0-14-023586-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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From Dryden to Johnsonby Boris FordISBN 0140222677 (0-14-022267-7)
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The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslaviaby Brian HallISBN 1567920004 (1-56792-000-4)
Hardcover, David R Godine Pub
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Kosovo: A Short Historyby Noel Malcolm, New York University Press StaffISBN 0060977752 (0-06-097775-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Kosovo Crossing: American Ideals Meet Reality on the Balkan Battlefieldsby David FromkinISBN 068486889X (0-684-86889-X)
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Kosovo Crossing : The Reality of American Intervention in the Balkansby David FromkinISBN 0684869535 (0-684-86953-5)
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Kosovo: War and Revengeby Tim JudahISBN 0300097255 (0-300-09725-5)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Lonely Planet After Yugoslaviaby Zoe BranISBN 1864500301 (1-86450-030-1)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of Warby Peter MaassISBN 0679763899 (0-679-76389-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslaviaby Andrew WachtelISBN 0804731810 (0-8047-3181-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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My War Gone By, I Miss It Soby Anthony LoydISBN 0140298541 (0-14-029854-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› 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]
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The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politicsby Ivo BanacISBN 0801494931 (0-8014-9493-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist Systemby Milovan DjilasISBN 015665489X (0-15-665489-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Origins of a Catastrophe : Yugoslavia and Its Destroyers--America's Last Ambassador Tells What Happened and Whyby Warren ZimmermannISBN 0812933036 (0-8129-3303-6)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Safe Area Gorazdeby Joe SaccoISBN 1560974702 (1-56097-470-2)
Softcover, Fantagraphics Books
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› 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
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Serbia under Milosevic: Politics in the 1990sby Robert ThomasISBN 1850653674 (1-85065-367-4)
Hardcover, C. Hurst & Co
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› 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]
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The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslaviaby Tim JudahISBN 0300085079 (0-300-08507-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Tito: And the Rise and Fall of Yugoslaviaby Richard WestISBN 185619437X (1-85619-437-X)
Hardcover, Sinclair-Stevenson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tito: And the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia'Book summary:A revealing biography of Tito, the Yugoslav leader who was a partisan against the Germans and the first Communist head to break with the Soviet Union, considers his role in the breakup of Yugoslavia after his death.[via]More editions of Tito: And the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia:
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To End a Warby Richard HolbrookeISBN 0375753605 (0-375-75360-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› 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]
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To End a War : Sarajevo to Daytonby Richard HolbrookeISBN 037550057X (0-375-50057-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslaviaby Michael ParentiISBN 1859843662 (1-85984-366-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovichby Danilo Kis, Duska Mikic-Mitchell, Joseph BrodskyISBN 1564782735 (1-56478-273-5)
Softcover, Dalkey Archive Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Tomb for Boris Davidovich'Book summary:"Kis is one of the handful of incontestably major writers of the second half of the century . . . Danilo Kis preserves the honor of literature."Partisan Review
Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their common fate. Although the stories Kis tells are based on historical events, the beauty and precision of his prose elevates these ostensibly true stories into works of literary art that transcend the politics of their time. [via]More editions of A Tomb for Boris Davidovich:
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Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyondby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0312278357 (0-312-27835-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› 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]
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Waging Modern Warby Wesley K. ClarkISBN 1903985552 (1-903985-55-2)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› 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
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› 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]
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Wartimeby Milovan DjilasISBN 0156947129 (0-15-694712-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wartime'Book summary:An account of the partisan campaign in Yugoslavia during World War II, written from the author's unique perspective-as a key leader of Tito's forces. Index; photographs. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.[via] 
Yugoslavia As History: Twice There Was a Countryby John R. LampeISBN 0521774012 (0-521-77401-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Yugoslavia: Death of a Nationby Laura Silber, Allan Little, British Broadcasting CorporationISBN 1575000059 (1-57500-005-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and Consequencesby Christopher BennettISBN 0814712886 (0-8147-1288-6)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevoby Zlata Filipovic, Christina Pribichevich-Zoric, Janine Di GiovanniISBN 0143036874 (0-14-303687-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo'Book summary:The experiences of Zlata Filipovic+a7 from 1991 through 1993 in Sarajevo reveal an innocent life of piano lessons and birthday parties horrifyingly transformed into days of food shortages, friends dying, and hiding out in a neighbor's cellar during bombings. Reprint. [via]
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Cronica De Travnik/ Chronicle of Travnikby Ivo AndricISBN 8483064502 (84-8306-450-2)
Hardcover, Debate Editorial
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Guerra Virtualby Michael IgnatieffISBN 8449313775 (84-493-1377-5)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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Hazarski Recnikby Milorad PavicISBN 8644101560 (86-441-0156-0)
Hardcover, Draganic
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