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1992 and 1993 will be remembered as the years in which a European country was destroyed. It was a land with a political and cultural history unlike any other, where the great religions and powers had overlapped and combined - Rome, Charlemagne, the Ottomans and the Austro-Hungarians. Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism and Islam. But this rich past has become shrouded in a fog of ignorance and misinformation. In this book, Balkan specialist and political commentator Noel Malcolm elucidates the myths and historical fallacies that have dominated not only media coverage of the war, but also, more shockingly, the words and actions of Western statesmen. In particular, he explodes the claim that the war was the inevitable consequence of "ancient ethnic hatreds" and shows that the causes of Bosnia's destruction came from outside itself - first through the strategy of the Serbian leadership, and then through the fatal miscomprehension and interference of Western politicians.
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"An acute, readable introduction to why and how racial history has been the bane of the Balkans and why it need not be."
-Village Voice Literary Supplement"Quite simply one of the best books of historical scholarship written for a general audience in the last decade."
-New York Newsday"By far the best available guide to the fatal steps to catastrophe . . . . Thoughtful, lucid, and deeply informed."
-New York Review of Books"An extraordinary book--the best available in English on the background of the Bosnian war."
-Warren Zimmermann, former U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia, in the National Interest"This book is essential for anyone to understand the present conflict . . .a splendid work of synthesis on a very complex subject, written with insight and sympathy: the best, indeed the only informed book on a history that has become both topical and tragic."
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The definitive work on the complex history of Bosnia from a well-known journalist and historian.
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- PublisherMacmillan
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0333616782
- ISBN 13 9780333616789
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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