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81. History of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Pannonia, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Jasenovac Concentration Camp | |
Paperback: 752
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(2010-09-15)
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82. The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Mr. Tim Judah | |
Paperback: 368
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(1998-08-11)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Serbs begins with the establishment of a Serbian state in the Middle Ages,then follows Serb fortunes through ensuing centuries of conquest, conflict, and oppression. Ethnic cleansing in the Balkans is hardly unique to the Bosnian war; it has been a horrific element of all Balkan conflicts, and Judah convincingly argues that Serbian nationalism is an outgrowth of the Serbs' own sufferings as victims of ethnic cleansing in past conflicts.Anyone interested in current affairs--particularly in the Balkans--will find Tim Judah's The Serbs an engrossing and important exploration of the Bosnian conflict. Customer Reviews (32)
Important book, but somewhat biased against the Serbs
Serbs love to rewrite history
A good book
Miserable propaganda
Devoid of historical seriousness or journalistic integrity |
83. Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War: Reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-1957 (Cold War History) by Svetozar Rajak | |
Hardcover: 288
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(2010-11-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description This book provides a comprehensive insight into one of the key episodes of the Cold War – the process of reconciliation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. At the time, this process had shocked the World as much as the violent break-up of their relations did in 1948. This book provides an explanation for the collapse of the process of normalization of Yugoslav-Soviet that occurred at the end of 1956 and the renewal of their ideological confrontation. It also explain the motives that guided the two main protagonists, Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and the Soviet leader Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. Based on Yugoslav and Soviet archival documents, this book establishes several innovative theories about this period. Firstly, that the significance of the Yugoslav-Soviet reconciliation went beyond their bilateral relationship. It had ramifications for relations in the Eastern Bloc, the global Communist movement, and on the dynamics of the Cold War world at its crucial juncture. Secondly, that the Yugoslav-Soviet reconciliation brought forward the process of de-Stalinization in the USSR and in the Peoples’ Democracies. Thirdly, it enabled Khrushchev to win the post-Stalin leadership contest. Lastly, the book argues that the process of Yugoslav-Soviet reconciliation permitted Tito to embark, together with Nehru of India and Nasser of Egypt upon creating the new entity in the bi-polar Cold War world – the Non-aligned movement. This book will be of interest to students of Cold War History, diplomatic history, European history and International Relations in general. Svetozar Rajak is a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the Managing Director of the LSE Cold War Studies Centre and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cold War History. |
84. Bosnia-Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed by Robert J. Donia, John V.A. Fine | |
Paperback: 318
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(1994-09-29)
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85. Dubrovnik: A History by Robin Harris | |
Hardcover: 550
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(2003-05-01)
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A word of warning
St. Blasius, Middle Age Mystic
A Must Have Book! |
86. Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia by Dejan Djokic | |
Hardcover: 310
Pages
(2007-04-01)
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87. History of the Balkans: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Ferdinand Schevill | |
Hardcover: 562
Pages
(1991-07)
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Essential reading for those who "skipped" Constantinople in school
If Rudyard Kipling wrote a history of the Balkans
Excellent and informative book |
88. First Serbian Uprising 1804-1813: Eem No. 107 (East European Monograph) | |
Hardcover: 389
Pages
(1982-04)
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89. Shattered Illusions by Nicholas Costa | |
Hardcover: 200
Pages
(1998-12-15)
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Illusions put together in fabulous articulation
Too much repetition. |
90. From Peacekeeping to Peacemaking: Canada's Response to the Yugoslav Crisis (Foreign Policy, Security and Strategic Studies) by Nicholas Gammer | |
Hardcover: 243
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(2001-06)
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91. The Birth of Yugoslavia- Volume 1 by Henry Baerlein | |
Paperback: 284
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(2007-12-15)
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92. Yugoslavia's Sunny Side: A History of Tourism in Socialism (1950-1980) by Hannes Grandits | |
Hardcover: 400
Pages
(2010-10-08)
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93. Genocide and Resistance in Hitler's Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943 (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) by Marko Attila Hoare | |
Hardcover: 400
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(2007-03-08)
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94. Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia by Richard West | |
Paperback: 436
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(1996-05-21)
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Amazing read, informative and captivating
But a little too sympathetic?
Almost comically misguided and pro-Serbian Instead of picking on little details, I'll just make some helpful recommendations. If you want insight into Tito and the wartime Partisans, read Milovan Djilas's "Wartime" and Fitzroy McLean's "Eastern Approaches". For some further (less flattering) insight into Tito postwar, read Ion Mihai Pacepa's "Red Horizons", which is mostly about Rumania and Causescu, but mentions Tito several times, speaking in some detail about the relationship between the two dictators. If you want insight into the true Serbian role in WW2, read the excellent "Sebia's secret war" by Philip J. Cohen. The facts are readily available, they've just been obscured by the long-discredited postwar propaganda that the author chooses to repeat in this book, for reasons known only to him. If you want to know about the massive bloody payback that was extracted right after WW2 for the crimes the Ustasha commited during the war, against both them and anyone else implicated by proxy (and just for not being zealous enough politically), read "Operation Slaughterhouse" by Guldescu and Prcela. It's difficult to find, and is a large volume, but if you really want to know, try to find a copy. If you want to really know how the wars in the former Yugoslavia started, read Laura Silber and Allan Little's excellent "Yugoslavia: Death of a nation". And no, you won't find old-fashioned platitudes about religion and "all of them being savages, so what can we do?" in there. I can see from some of the other reviews here that this book has already done damage. But if you are really curious about the region and it's history, read the above volumes, and you'll certainly be far better informed than this sadly deficient volume can provide. Sadly, the author seems keen on repeating old and tired cliches about the region, dating from WW1 (and that weren't particularly true even then), and his thin attempts at excusing the role of the Serbs in the recent wars with moral relativism are almost upsetting (knowing less informed readers might believe such conclusions). After all, if everyone started extracting payback for historical wrongs, we'd be left with a planet of blind people. Such arguments are no excuse, even with the over-inflated claims the author makes about WW2 war crimes, while ignoring the true extent of the crimes of the Chetniks (and their habitual and consistent cooperation with Nazis and Italian Fascists). As for his claims about Bosnian "fundamentalism", well, he's clearly never actually met a Bosnian Muslim. Or at least, not before the wars, which understandably somewhat tipped people there in a unfortunate direction. Without a shadow of a doubt, no Bosnian would have tolerated Wahhabi vermin among their midst before the horrors of the recent war there. Trying to project minority postwar attitudes backwards is very ill-informed, and just plain wrong. The author also mentions postwar Ustasha terrorist acts, however, he absurdly seems to think that problem was not dealt with in-country. In fact, it's well known (among those of us with a clue, at any rate), that all Ustasha attempts at postwar infiltration were met with failure and shooting deaths of the participants. Also, agents of the infamous UDBA (Yugoslav secret police) were famous for hunting down both Ustashe and other dissidents worldwide and assasinating them. This is well known. It puzzles me how the author was unaware of the extent of such activities by Tito's secret police. All that said, I can agree with the conclusion that Tito was the most benevolent of the recent dictators, and he truly did make Yugoslavia a world player while he was in charge. No small achievement, there. Also, the standard of living and personal freedoms (while certainly not maching, say, those of the United States), were better than in all other communist countries. Then again, that was at the expense of massive debts, that had to be paid eventually. But, it was fun while it lasted. Either way, don't waste time with this volume. Read the others I mentioned if you want true insight.
3.5 Stars
Great history of the Balkins I have been living in Slovenia for the last 3 years and made some travels into Serbia and Croatia.I learned more from this book that the 3 years living here. It is long and somewhat academic but a reasonably easy recreational read. Do NOT get the other book about Tito (by Djlias)-- this was written for an audience who is interesting in debating Markist philosophy. ... Read more |
95. Empire on the Adriatic: Mussolini's Conquest of Yugoslavia 1941-1943 by H. James Burgwyn | |
Paperback: 405
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(2005-07-01)
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A Good Start
Mussolini's War in Yugoslavia
An objective study
Very fine, but... |
96. Limits of Persuasion: Germany and the Yugoslav Crisis, 1991-1992 by Donald D. Halstead, Michael Libal | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(1997-11-20)
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97. Broken Bonds: Yugoslavia's Disintegration And Balkan Politics, by Lenard J Cohen | |
Paperback: 299
Pages
(1993-06-30)
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Excellent
Superb account of Yugoslavia's destruction by outside forces Yugoslavia existed as a state from 1918 to 1991. Under Tito it had a devolved and federal constitution. This gave parity representation to each of the six republics in the Yugoslav federation, even though Serbia was by far the biggest. Tito selected people for jobs by 'ethnic arithmetic' and rotated top officials annually. But these policies signally failed to unify Yugoslavia. The constitution encouraged those who wanted to split the country. They had a two-track strategy. They aimed to move from federation to confederation as a step towards independence; at the same time they formed separate institutions designed for complete independence. Outside forces seized on these internal failings. In January 1991 the US and German Ambassadors pressed the Yugoslav National Army not to intervene to keep Croatia in Yugoslavia. In early 1991 Germany and other countries sold arms to Croatia and Slovenia. On 25 June 1991 Croatia and Slovenia unilaterally declared their independence. The Croats were desperate for foreign intervention: "The Tudjman government believed that immediate internationalization of the Yugoslav crisis was absolutely crucial." When the Yugoslav Government deployed the National Army to hold the country together, the EC secretly threatened to cut off all aid to Yugoslavia. On 4 October 1991, the opening day of the EC Conference, its chairman Lord Carrington presented an agenda "premised on the assumption that Yugoslavia no longer existed." The EC announced that all the Yugoslav republics "are sovereign and independent with international identity". As Cohen wrote, "the EC had apparently made a political decision to dismember the Yugoslav federation." Hurd warned in December 1991 that recognising Croatia and Slovenia would escalate the war. Carrington warned that recognition would weaken diplomatic efforts to achieve a ceasefire and a settlement, and would also spread the war to Bosnia. Despite, or because of, all these good reasons, the EC, including Britain, recognised Croatia and Slovenia in January. The UN did too, despite its "internal divisions about the propriety of intervention in a sovereign state's domestic disputes." The war did spread to Bosnia. In July 1991 the Moslem Bosnian Organization tried to negotiate a Moslem-Serb accord to prevent war in Bosnia and to preserve Bosnia's territorial integrity. Karadzic accepted this for the Bosnian Serbs, but Izetbegovic, the leader of the Bosnian Muslims, rejected it. Izetbegovic is a member of the fundamentalist 'Fida'iyane Islam', which wants to turn Bosnia into an Islamic Republic, although Muslims are only a third of the population. Bosnia's Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic tried to justify the composition of his government by saying "It is a fact that Moslems make up 99% of the Bosnian defense forces so it is natural that they form the government." In so doing he gave the lie to the nonsense that Bosnia is some form of multicultural democracy. These armed forces have been "strengthened with thousands of volunteers from various Islamic countries" and by illegal arms shipments, often through Slovenia, especially from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. In his 1970 Islamic Declaration, which he reprinted in 1990, Izetbegovic wrote, "The Islamic movement must and can take power not only to destroy the non-Islamic power but to build up a new Islamic one." Cohen noted "the more militant and religiously nationalistic majority in the party led by Alija Izetbegovic (who had spent eight years in jail under the communists for his Islamic fundamentalist beliefs)." Cohen analysed "the role of traditional religions in generating ethnic conflicts" in Yugoslavia. Again, in February 1992 Izetbegovic sabotaged the Lisbon Agreement for Moslem-Serb-Croat power-sharing. He "later conceded that Bosnia might have avoided a violent war if it had stayed together with Serbia and Montenegro in a reconfigured Yugoslavia." In early 1992 his dash for Bosnian independence was "prompted by the opportunity for quick recognition by the EC." Even the US Ambassador to Yugoslavia called his decision 'disastrous'. Cohen pointed out that "the lack of a political settlement among the major ethnic groups within Bosnia-Herzegovina actually justified postponing recognition of that republic as another new state in April 1992." But the EC and the UN went ahead with recognition. In the autumn of 1993 Bosnian Moslem government forces killed "thousands of civilian Croats in central Bosnia". The United States has throughout the war campaigned for US intervention. As Cohen pointed out, it used hyperbolic calls of genocide to try to justify intervention. It has vilified the Serbs and whitewashed the Bosnian Moslems and the Croats. To defeat the Serbs, "the United States, though not ostensibly taking sides in the war, had effectively engineered the Moslem-Croat agreement." Cohen showed how "behind the scenes, Washington was gradually expanding its military support for the Moslems and Croats". Clinton approved the initiative of a group of former US military officers to assist Croatia's armed forces. Cohen finished by writing hopefully, "The imperatives of economic survival and reconstruction, as well as geographic proximity and other earlier interdependencies, suggested that such cooperation would eventually resume despite the recent episodes of terrible, ethnic, religious, and political violence." But there is no chance of this vital peaceful reconstruction happening with 60,000 foreign troops in the country. Their presence will prolong the war in Yugoslavia, and also runs a high risk of spreading it to other countries. It will certainly worsen the tension between the NATO powers and Russia. Bulgaria and Greece will not appreciate the presence of so many NATO troops so near to them.
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98. The Tragedy of Yugoslavia | |
Paperback: 256
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(1993-12)
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99. Yugoslavia: The Process of Disintegration (East European Monographs) by Lasio Sekeij | |
Hardcover: 280
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(1993-03)
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Extract from �Books on Bosnia�, London 1999 |
100. Mixail Soloxov in Yugoslavia by Professor Robert F. Price, Robert F. Price | |
Hardcover: 180
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(1973-10-15)
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