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"Vigorous, passionate, humane, and extremely readable. . . For an account of what has actually happened. . . Glenny's book so far stands unparalleled."-The New Republic
The fall of Yugoslavia tells the whole, true story of the Balkan Crisis-and the ensuing war-for those around the world who have watched the…
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I remember the Balkan wars in the early 1990s, as I followed television and newspaper reports on events like the siege of Sarajevo.
But although some things were already quite clear at the time (the massacre at Srebrenica was a war crime and a human tragedy), I never had more than a vague idea of who were the ‘good guys’ and who were the ‘bad guys’, much less any understanding of the root causes of the wars.
This book provides an exceptional first-hand account of the various dreams, motivations, manipulations, and arrogance that lead to the implosion of Yugoslavia after…
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