Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Cultural And Social Anthropology    4. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    5. Europe - Baltic States    6. Europe - History    7. History - General History    8. Personal Memoirs    9. 21st century    10. Biography: general    11. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    12. Serbia    13. c 1990 to c 2000   

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Subjects:  1. Aerial Operations    2. Aerial operations, American    3. Bombing, Aerial    4. Civil War, 1998-1999    5. History    6. History - Military / War    7. Kosovo (Serbia)    8. Military    9. Military - Nuclear Warfare    10. Military - Strategy    11. Military History - Post 1945    12. Military Science    13. United States    14. World War, 1939-1945    15. Air forces & warfare    16. American history: Second World War    17. American history: postwar, from c 1945 -    18. Chemical & biological weapons    19. Military tactics    20. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    21. Second World War, 1939-1945    22. USA   

Subjects:  1. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    2. General    3. History - General History    4. Political Ideologies - Nationalism    5. Political Science    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Politics/International Relations    8. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    9. Serbia   

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True facts about great-serbian propaganda !
This book discovers the true facts great-serbian propaganda always tried to sweep under the carpet.

Laughably Bad
Only a Croatia untranationalist could like this steaming pile of manure.For a scholarly, factual view of Yugoslavia during the war, skip this, and skip equally unbalanced Serbian untranationalist tripe and go straight to Tomasevich's War and Revolution in Yugoslavia.

Oh my god!
It is quite astonishing that nobody of Jewish or Serbian surrvivors of the Holocaust has not yet sued the "author" of this book (real author is Croatian Ustashi Emigration which sponsors the publishing house of this deeply offending book) for his itentional missrepresentation of the history and pain and distress that his lies are causing to us who survived the genocide.
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Subjects:  1. Collaborationists    2. Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union    3. Historiography    4. History - Military / War    5. History: World    6. International Relations - General    7. Military - World War II    8. Political Science    9. Serbia    10. Serbia and Montenegro    11. World War, 1939-1945    12. European history: Second World War    13. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    14. Propaganda    15. Warfare & Defence   

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A Pebble in My Shoe
This book gives a first hand look at what life was like for the German Donauschwaben who were victims of Tito's ethnic cleansing.At the age of eight, Katherine Flotz' world turns upside down.Through her eyes we learn about the brutal abuse that her family endured.This book also helps us realize that her story is not an isolated incident since she is only one of the 15 million Germans who were displaced (2 million of them murdered)during this time. My hats off to the author for having the courage to write about this difficult period in her life so that we may learn more about it.

Lost Childhood
In the spring of 1945 World War ll ended. But in Communist Eastern Europe all hell broke loose for millions of Ethnic Germans.Revenge was taken on young and old.Families were torn apart for no other reason then to obtain vengeance.Many people died.The majority of the victims who survived those brutal years still carry these memories in silence. Very few people have dared to go back and recall that time - let alone put down their memories on paper because the pain is to great.
A triumph of life over cruel adversity
What a wonderful gift from Katherine Hoeger Flotz! A deeply moving memoir of a child's recollections of life in one of Tito's concentration camps. A story not only of survival but of triumph over deadly adversity. This is a most valuable contribution to the too little known saga of the ethnic cleansing of the Donauschwabians after WWII. As a fellow survivor from another village I was often moved to tears as I read this memoir. Enriched by deeply evocative family photos, touching but never vengeful, A Pebble in MY Shoe deserves a wide readership. A triumph from a wise and generous survivor. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography / Historical    2. History / Europe / Eastern    3. Atrocities    4. Flotz, George    5. Flotz, Katherine Hoeger    6. Genocide    7. Germans    8. Krusevlje (Concentration camp)    9. Refugees, German    10. Serbia and Montenegro    11. Yugoslavia   

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Part travelogue, part history, part love letter on a thousand-page scale, Rebecca West's Read more

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Literature at its best

Large, masterful
Black Lamb and Gray Falcon is monumental, and anyone that has written formal fiction or non-fiction can only marvel at how West maintains control over her materials at nearly 500,000 words, and over 1100 pages.We never get the impression that she is fatigued with the work --- and there is no repetition.Even if one is not interested in travel literature, BLGF is a must read, because it one of the great examples of its genre, and as such, transcends it.For all its length, West complains that one can never fully write about a place, can never actually capture it!That nugget is somewhere on page 900, I think, and although the reader can sympathize with her exasperation, we can hardly believe her.

1181 pages too many
This book is a huge disappointment.Instead of discovering the history of a wonderful people, I found bigotry, racism, snobisness and intolerance.At page 200 or so, and after many tries to warm up to this author with her narrow-minded and slanted views, I decided to just put it down and search for unbiased history in other sources. To readers who haven't visited the Balkans, I'd suggest save your money to actually travel there.You won't be disappointed by the wonderful islands or it's people. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Description and travel    2. Descriptions et voyages    3. Eastern question (Balkan)    4. Histoire    5. History    6. Serbia    7. Serbie    8. Yougoslavie    9. Yugoslavia   

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Objectivity Might Be the Key Word Describing this Book
Considering its location, in the continent considered as the hearth of modern knowledge, culture and science, there hardly exists any other place about which the world knows less than Kosovo. So every attempt to enlighten this obscure part of Europe should be congratulated. The matter becomes even more important after one of the most recent wars, where NATO, the world's biggest and best-equipped military force, was involved. Kosovo (Anthem Slavic and Russian Studies)
Only intellectual blindness may prevent reader to instantly recognize Stephen Schwartz subjective and groundless interpretation of history. Exceptional historical insight in region
KOSOVO: Background to a War (UK) by Stephen Schwartz provides a concise yet detailed account of the main historical and cultural political currentsthat created the necessity for the NATO intervention and occupation.Schwartz is an especially astute observer of telling historical parallelsand refined ethnic sensibilities, probably because he speaks the languagesand makes himself available to discuss the political and religiousimplications with soldiers, politicians, scholars and common people. Thestudy represents a political analysis of the central issues between theSerbs and Albanians that continues to exasperate the area.Read more

Subjects:  1. Current Affairs    2. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    3. Ethnic relations    4. Europe - Baltic States    5. General    6. History    7. International    8. Kosovo (Serbia)    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Civil war    12. Current Events / International    13. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    14. Kosovo    15. Nato    16. Serbs    17. War    18. Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia   

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In the summer of 1998, freelance journalist Greg Campbell got into a rental car in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and drove across Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro into Kosovo, where Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic had recently begun stepping up an ongoing "ethnic cleansing" campaign against the ethnic Albanians who make up the majority of the region's population. Staying with local journalists--some of whom were also part of the underground Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)--Campbell was forced to confront the consequences of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.Read more

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Good Start
I think this book details why politicians and large political / military organizations like NATO have such a difficulty in successfully performing low level military conflicts like the peacekeeping effort in the Yugoslavia region.This book details by representing the destruction and ongoing fighting, just how ineffective the peacekeeping process was at the start due to a half-hearted commitment by the political leaders.The military in the conventional sense, is not a police force or social working group, the purpose of the military is to destroy the enemy.When asking this force to go about a job they are not designed for with one hand tied behind their back and the constant fear of every decision being second-guessed, is there any surprise that the effort did not work for some time. Greg Campbell - You're a great writer
Well,first of all I must admit that I'm halfway the book now but I'm already able to recommend this book. I had a library copy at home when I bought this book and to be honest I was sorry I did that because I could read the book for free BUT in the very first pages thanks to the writing of Mr.Campbell I have congratulated this book for getting a placein the bookshelf of mine called "Only the best books I've everread in my life". This book is so good as it tells things as they were.Mr.Campbell tells the truth and doesnt sympathise anybody except the justice. His writing is amazing and you wouldn't be surprise when you get transfered so easily into a strange world full of mysteries. I try to buy every single book about my country and I have plenty of those but "The Road to Kosovo" is the best one. I'll finish by saying -Even if you read 100 books in this subject you wont be able to find as much true information as in this one. And YOU'LL GET TO KNOW THE BOSNIA,KOSOVA AS YOU KNOW YOUR OWN COUNTRY - AND THAT'S ALL THANKS TO GREG CAMPBELL

A good quick read on the Balkans
The Road to Kosovo A Balkan Diary was a good fast read.I found his experiences similar to a "road trip" I had taken through the R.S. and Croatia with Bosniak License Plates while on vacation during my yearworking for the U.N. The book gives you a good feel for a foreigner'simpression of the area. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1980-    2. Bosnia and Hercegovina    3. Campbell, Greg    4. Description And Travel    5. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    6. Eastern Europe - History    7. Essays & Travelogues    8. Europe - General    9. History    10. History - General History    11. History: World    12. Kosovo (Serbia)    13. Peace    14. Politics/International Relations    15. Serbia and Montenegro    16. Travel    17. Civil war    18. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    19. Journeys    20. Other prose: from c 1900 -    21. Serbia    22. Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia   

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Book for the start
This is a good book for someone who want to start exploring a history of Serbs, and gives you a basic information about people, culture and political and social history. For others this is a book you realy need for personal library. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    3. General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. National characteristics, Serb    8. National characteristics, Serbian    9. Serbia    10. Serbs    11. Yugoslavia    12. Ethnography    13. NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS    14. SERBIA_HISTORY    15. Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural    16. YUGOSLAVIA_HISTORY   

Subjects:  1. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    2. Eastern Europe - General    3. Ethnic Studies - General    4. General    5. History & Theory - General    6. History - General History    7. Military - Other    8. Political Science    9. Politics/International Relations   

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Scarcely had the dust settled on NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia when prolific political commentator Noam Chomsky brought out Read more

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Far from exhaustive
The New Military Humanism, Noam Chomsky
A peek inside the lofty rhetoric
This book should not be approached as a history or an account of the Kosovo conflict. There is little background to the wars in the former Yugoslavia. That is for other works to present. The focus here is the 'new military humanism' of the West as an idea, and as a practice, with the Kosovo war of 1999 serving as the example. The examination takes into account the Orwellian notion that in free societies, it 'wouldn't do' to mention certain facts, namely the facts that contradict the lofty ideals we profess to be upholding.
Self evident but important
What is truly sad is that books like this have to exist.Indeed, apart from 'barking' about human rights abuses, if we look at Slobodan Milosevic clones, both Croatian and Bosnian, we notice that each side had blood on its hands.While Chomsky is never popular, this work should be self evident.How can we say the humanitarian mission on Kosovo was justified while NATO turned a blind eye to the biggest exodus of all previously: the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia.Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil War, 1998-1999    2. Europe - Baltic States    3. History    4. History: World    5. Human Rights    6. International Relations - General    7. Intervention (International la    8. Intervention (International law)    9. Kosovo (Serbia)    10. Military - Other    11. Operation Allied Force, 1999    12. Participation, Foreign    13. Political    14. Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights    15. Political Science    16. Politics - Current Events    17. Politics / Current Events    18. Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)    19. Political Science / General    20. Warfare & Defence   

Subjects:  1. History / Europe / General    2. Illyrian letters,correspondence,Illyrian provinces,Bosnia,Herzegovina,Montenegro,Albania,Dalmatia,Croatia,Slavonia,Arthur John,Evans   

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Lest We Forget, the death camp was called 'JASENOVAC'
This book was typically written by a non-historian, a biased anti-Serb trying to portray a non-factual and non-historically backed truth.
An explanation of why the Serbs used genocide.
This book explains why the Serbs did the genocides of the 1990s.
A valuable account of the background of the Yugoslav wars
This is a book about the history of Serbian nationalism and xenophobia.The author gives a quite brief treatment of early Serbian history then goes into, as all such accounts seem to, the famous 1389 Battle of Kosovo.But he gives more detail than similar accounts, discussing the medieval sagas of the battle in detail and showing how the legend that was built around it was modeled on legends relating to the temptation and crucifixion of Christ.He also takes pains to refute another Serbian myth, that the Serbs, while losing their own independence, saved Europe from the Ottomans.In fact, as he demonstrates, the weakened Serb state after 1389 was a Turkish ally and helped the Ottomans move into Europe.Read more

Subjects:  1. Balkan Peninsula - History    2. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    3. Eastern Europe - General    4. General    5. History    6. History - General History    7. History: World    8. Military History - 1990-    9. Nationalism    10. Serbia    11. Serbia and Montenegro    12. BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA    13. Cultural studies    14. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    15. History / Europe / Eastern    16. SERBIA_HISTORY    17. The Holocaust   

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An Extraordinary Book - Will Enlighten and Challenge Us All
I could not put this book down.The author explores the various sides, themes, and politics of the Balkan crisis.No voice is silenced but all voices are given time to speak.It is fair, accurate, and unbiased in its look at the terrible crimes perpetrated on the Bosnian people.Beautifully written and full of compassionate insights. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil War, 1998-1999    2. Contemporary Politics - Eastern Europe    3. Current Affairs    4. Eastern Europe - Yugoslavia    5. Europe - Baltic States    6. History    7. International Relations - General    8. Kosovo (Serbia)    9. Military & War    10. Military - Other    11. Political Discontent And Violence    12. Political Freedom & Security - International Secur    13. Politics / Current Events    14. Politics and government    15. Politics/International Relations    16. Defence strategy, planning & research    17. Demonstrations & protest movements    18. Eastern Europe    19. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    20. Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)    21. International relations    22. Political structure & processes   

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Great Book
I was very impressed with this book.I have read a number of books on this operation and the book I thought would be the best overall review was the book written by General Clark.Unfortunately, for me that book did not provide much detail on the actual working of the operation. He focused on the political side of the air war and what it took to get the NATO members to play nice with each other.I came away from his book with some details, but a bit disappointed. This book on the other hand was exactly what I wanted.I always love it when I pick up a book and it turns out to completely exceed my expectations.It's like getting a great surprise gift. The Inelegant Victory
There is little doubt that the 78-day NATO air campaign against Serbia in March-June 1999, dubbed Operation Allied Force, will remain highly controversial for a long time.NATO launched a limited war against Serbia in order to stop the vicious on-going ethnic cleansing campaign in the province of Kosovo and although ultimately Serb President Milosevic "blinked," it was an inelegant victory.Yet the victory was hardly inevitable and until the final weeks the air campaign appeared to be ineffective in bending Milosevic to meet NATO's demands.In NATO's Air War for Kosovo, RAND analyst Benjamin S. Lambeth has written an incisive strategic assessment of the air campaign as part of a US Air Force research project on the operation.Rather than a detailed, blow-by-blow account of the air war, Lambeth offers detailed analysis on the major achievements and problems in Allied Force.While other more detailed books will surely follow on the Kosovo War, Lambeth's volume will certainly be a good place to start in understanding this complex operation. Balanced, well-written and highly informative
This book is a must read for anyone interested in the role and efficacy of air power.This account is well-balanced giving the story from the pro air power and anti airpower views.It also answers the nagging questions you may have had after reading the incredibly uninformative and shallow accounts in the press.The book posits the reasons.An example -- the book provides the reasons for the need for a credible ground threat for airpower to be effective.Books such as Bombing to Win only state the need.Detailed, nuanced and spot-on accurate. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aerial operations    2. Civil War, 1998-1999    3. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    4. History    5. History - General History    6. Kosovo (Serbia)    7. Military    8. Operation Allied Force, 1999    9. Air forces & warfare    10. Battles & campaigns    11. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    12. International institutions    13. Non-Classifiable    14. Serbia    15. Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia   

Subjects:  1. Serbia    2. History - General History    3. Yugoslavia    4. Holocaust    5. Dictionaries    6. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)    7. History: World    8. Jews    9. Persecutions   

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Another Serb nationalist
Moderate Serb nationalism is the consolation prize one expects when looking for dissent from that camp. When a Serb author shows a willingness to be the first to stop making excuses and to disavow fully genocidal Serb nationalism (what a hard thing to do!) that we will have a book worth reading. This isn't it.

The inside story
If you want some insight into the psyche of that pugnacious and obnoxious defendent at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, this is the book to read. Slavoljub Djukic, a respected Serbian journalist, has been following the career of Slobodan Milosevic (as well as his wife Mirjana Markovic) since the rise of this dull communist functionary to national prominence in the late 1980s. Djukic researched his subject meticulously, and made good use of his many contacts in Serbian/Yugoslav political and media circles, to say nothing of his keen powers of observation over the last 10+ years. There are vivid descriptions of the personalities of both Milosevic and Markovic, whose influence on her husband was/is legendary. Djukic also provides a wealth of information on many other important figures in Serbian politics over the course of the last decade, from Milosevic's many accomplices and yes-men to opposition leaders. Another valuable, but more indirect, aspect of this book is that it provides some insight into the views of moderate Serb nationalists (like Djukic) who greatly opposed Milosevic's regime. This is essential reading for a better understanding of Serbian politics and recent Serbian history - although I suspect a new, updated edition is in the works given Milosevic's imprisonment and subsequent, very recent extradition to the Hague. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1941-    2. 1942-    3. Balkan Peninsula - History    4. Biographies    5. Biography    6. Biography & Autobiography    7. Biography / Autobiography    8. Biography/Autobiography    9. Contemporary Politics - Eastern Europe    10. Europe - General    11. Historical - General    12. Markovic, Mira,    13. Milosevic, Slobodan,    14. Political    15. Presidents    16. Presidents' spouses    17. Prâesidents    18. Serbia    19. Serbia and Montenegro    20. Serbie    21. Yougoslavie    22. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    23. Markovic, Mira    24. Milosevic, Slobodan    25. Political science & theory    26. Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship    27. Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia   

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You've got to be kidding
Before going on, it is important to point out that Ignatieff is a journalist, NOT a historian. While both are required to check their facts for accuracy, the journalist permits personal opinion and argument to fill in all the holes, something to make the historian dissociate himself from friends in the press.
An interesting series of essays
I bought this book a couple of years ago but did not get around to reading it until last week, shortly after the war in Iraq ended (more or less). I was curious to see what kind of perspective it would offer not only on the Kosovo campaign but on the war in Iraq. I found it both a useful refresher on a very different battle, the 79 day air campaign against Serbia, and an interesting meditation on modern war. Not sure what to make of this
Clearly Michael Ignatieff is a gifted writer, but the theme throughout this book did not string together that well.Ignatieff had some great insights into the diplomacy building up to the Kosovo air campaign (i.e. gaining valuable insight into Holbrooke's shuttle diplomacy), but some of the observations, particularly those in the last chapter beg questioning.Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil War, 1998-1999    2. Current Affairs    3. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    4. History    5. History - Military / War    6. International    7. International Relations - General    8. Kosovo (Serbia)    9. Military - Other    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Political Science / General    12. Bargain   

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Balkan Economic History in Comparative Perspective
Palairet's contribution to the Balkan Economic history is the sixth volume of the Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic history series. The series are described as a new initiative in the writing of the economic historydictated by the concerns of the history of economic performance, output andproductivity with a direct reference to the evolutions and impacts ofeconomic growth or stagnation. The volumes are mentioned as written in linewith the mainstream of the series. As far as Palairet's volume isconcerned, his outcome, which is basically derived from a long termcomparative analysis of the performance of the Balkan economies, reconcileswith this phenomenon. His deductive, in-depth study of the Balkan economiesfrom early 19th century until 1914, suggests a deploring performance ratherthan growth, though agricultural production steadily increased, a level ofindustrialisation attained, nevertheless per capita output and income nevercaught up the levels of the pre-modern and pre-liberation times. Thepre-liberation times overlapped with the sovereignty of the Ottoman rulefor most of the Balkan states except Serbia enjoying an independent statusafter 1815. Such a long