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Title: Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber, Allan Little ISBN: 0-14-026263-6 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Reporting at its best
Comment: Somehow, great reporters become famous after servicing in some type of 'tiranny', like a South American, a Middle Eastern or even a Balkan country. What this BBC correspondents did in Yugoslavia is a true masterpiece. They were able even to read the mind of politicians and war generals; they didn't miss a single point of the action, and their book reads like replaying events occurred now a decade ago.
Rating: 5
Summary: A masterful account
Comment: If you read only one book on the tragedy that befell Yugoslavia in the 90s this book is the one. Deeply if subtly analytical to satisfy the social scientist, profoundly sensitive to empirical detail to please the historian, this account ranks as the best journalism of its day. It can and should be read by the widest audience: scholar, policy-maker, or generalist. I would go so far to say that not reading this book is an irresponsible act.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, if a little one-sided
Comment: Like most of the reviewers I am a veteran Balkanist, and am impressed by the quality of both research and writing in this , I found it even easier to use than Mischa Glenny's excellent study of War & Nationalism.
My caveat is the obvious one, it takes very much the 'Guardian report from embattled Sarejevo' approach to the Bosnian conflict. The Serbs are caricatured as villains and the Muslims as heroes/victims, and the Croats relegated to an overly minor role, rather than key players. It also takes this line (a bit)with the break-up of Yugoslavia, where extremist Serb statements are extensively quoted as if representative of Yugoslavia's Serb polity, while similar stuff from Croats or Albanians is carefully put in its correct context as not speaking for the majority. The lies and misdeeds of Serb politicans are likewise accurately deconstructed, while those of the other sides tend to be taken uncritically at their own word. My own experience of living in Bosnia during 1990 was of a community for whom no sides extremists actually spoke, but were polarised against their will by war and the fear of war. The trouble is that a a historian it is easy to be caught by self-fulfilling prophecies, extremists can both talk and ignite a war which engulfs whole communities, it should not be taken as proof they were somehow articulating a whole community's desire for war all along!
Overall a useful contibution, especially in terms of chronology of who said what, and provided its bias is taken into account, well worth reading.
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Title: The Balkans: Nationalism, War & the Great Powers, 1804-1999 by Misha Glenny ISBN: 0140233776 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah, Timothy Judah ISBN: 0300085079 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Bosnia: A Short History by Noel Malcolm ISBN: 0814755615 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Kosovo : A Short History by Noel Malcolm, University Pres New York ISBN: 0060977752 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Kosovo: War and Revenge by Tim Judah ISBN: 0300097255 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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