Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography / Historical    2. Researches,Danube,Adriatic,History,Hungary,Transylvania,Dalmatia,Croatia,Servia,Bulgaria,Andrew Archibald Paton,Serbia,Serb   

Subjects:  1. 1876-1917    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Conspiracies    7. Dimitrijevic-Apis, Dragutin T    8. Eastern Europe - History    9. Military    10. Serbia    11. Serbia and Montenegro    12. Soldiers    13. Eastern Europe    14. World history   

Subjects:  1. Balkan Peninsula - History    2. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    3. Europe - General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. International    7. International Relations - General    8. Military    9. War Crimes And Criminals   

Reviews (1)

Limited coverage of an interesting topic
This book is a diary written by a Scottish nurse who volunteered in Serbia during World War I.Unfortunately, the diary entries are sparse and there is not enough commentary or description.The best part of this book is the many photographs that are provided. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1890-    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Cooks    5. Diaries    6. General    7. Hospitals    8. Ross, Ishobel,    9. Scotland    10. Serbia    11. World War I    12. World War, 1914-1918    13. First World War, 1914-1918    14. Ross, Ishobel    15. World history: First World War   

Subjects:  1. Carlist War, 1873-1876    2. Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871    3. History    4. Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878    5. Serbia    6. Spain   

Subjects:  1. 1980-    2. Balkan Peninsula    3. Foreign relations    4. Germany    5. History    6. Kosovo (Serbia)    7. Serbia   

Subjects:  1. Aerial operations    2. Bombing, Aerial    3. Civil War, 1998-1999    4. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    5. Eastern Europe - Yugoslavia    6. History    7. History - General History    8. Kosovo (Serbia)    9. Military    10. Military - General    11. Military - Other    12. North Atlantic Treaty Organiza    13. North Atlantic Treaty Organization    14. Yugoslavia    15. Air forces & warfare    16. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    17. History / Military / General    18. International relations    19. Serbia    20. War & defence operations    21. Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia    22. c 1990 to c 2000   

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Drivel not worth the paper it's printed on
Cigar's book is probably one of the worst books I've had the displeasure of reading. I barely got through it, to be honest. It is full of propaganda about some "Greater Serbia", and it rests on the notion that, well, Serbia can't be anything but a threat to its neighbours. Since its primary goal seems to be driven by Serbophobia rather than the author's wish to get the readers acquainted with Voislav Koshtunitsa, I don't see why he even chose to write a biographical book (one which is barely that, I might add.). He could've cut to the chase and gone the way so many "Balkan experts" have gone before him.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1980-1992    2. 1992-2003    3. Kostunica, Vojislav    4. Koéstunica, Vojislav    5. Political Ideologies - Democracy    6. Political Science    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics and government    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Yugoslavia    11. ASIA    12. Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -    13. European history: postwar, from c 1945 -    14. History / General    15. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    16. Political Science / Democracy    17. Serbia    18. Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia   

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A study of the quiet -- often overlooked -- pain of war ...
It's a crying shame that the world hosts chronic bouts of uncivil wars all over the planet, and then their atrocities vie for our attention. It's a pity that the current, most florid acts of inhumanity (via the media) hold us in thrall and divert us from the grinding pain of recovery from similar acts elsewhere. The focus on the Miedle East has distracted us from other hostilities that changed the map and twisted lives. One such conflict is the tangle of unrest among Albanians/Serbians/Bosniaks and others who share, or shared, Kosovo. Praise forNo Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo
This is a fantastic book!It completely transports the reader into the lives and experiences of the people of Kosovo. They are elegantly and honestly portrayed through Friend's unique choice of medium. She juxtaposes stunning photographs and gripping testimonies of her subjects, inspiring compassion and awe from her audience.Having a degree in International Relations, I found this book offered an insightful and fresh perspective on the situation in the Balkans, while remaining accessible to a wide audience. Beautiful!

Documentary Photography at its best!
This is a book about war unlike any other. You are drawn in by the photographs and, somehow, the voices of the ordinary civilians telling you about their lives under the years of repression, the war, the flight from their homes and their return to the devastated towns and villages hit you with remarkable poignancy. The juxtaposition of these extraordinary photographs and the testimonies is truly remarkable. This is not onlygreat documentary photography, it is also one of the most articulate and profound book about war I've ever read. Kudos to Melanie Friend! Very highly recommended! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil War, 1998-    2. Civil War, 1998-1999    3. Current Affairs    4. Eastern Europe - General    5. History    6. History - General History    7. International    8. Kosovo (Serbia)    9. Military - Other    10. Personal narratives    11. Personal narratives, Albanian    12. Photoessays & Documentaries    13. Photojournalism    14. Politics/International Relations    15. Ethnic studies    16. Photographic reportage    17. Serbia    18. Current Affairs & Politics   

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useful and mind-stretching
_Mapping European Security After Kosovo_is a collection of ten essays by Scandinavian, German, and British scholars about the ways in which the conflict in Kosovo has shaped post-Cold War European security. The preliminary two chapters provide an overview of the Kosovo conflict, placing it in the context of globalization. Peter Van Ham (Netherlands Institute of International Relations "Clingendael") argues that, by not accepting the rationales of European integration and European security, Milosevic's Serbia "posed itself as the main challenge to the emerging new European order (NEO), and, by ignoring the logic of NEO realism, raised the key question that European policy makers and theorists have tried to ignore: on what stable foundations can European security be constructed?" (p. 6). He concludes that Kosovo has been `both the pretext and ultimate context in which the contemporary reading of `European security' is taking place. Chapters three, four, and five then probe Kosovo's impact on the idea of war itself.Was NATO's involvement all-out war, a military intervention, or merely an "air operation? asks Pertti Joenniemi of the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (p. 6). To describe NATO's bombing as "war" - at least from a NATO perspective - would be a "misnomer" and would even "undermine NATO's effort to construct itself as a new transatlantic community," he states (p.60). Joenniemi concludes that, in Kosovo, war has "transcended its modern meaning without becoming an integral part of the new and incoming, and without altogether leaving behind the old ideas of war (p. 63). In the next chapter, Iver Neumann (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo) explores the concept of legitimacy in war, namely who can wage war, by which means, and over which issues. NATO was able to "pose as the representative of humanity," he avers, because "liberal globalization is left as the only political program with any global appeal" (p. 7). In the following chapter "Kosovo and the End of the United Nations?" Heikki Patomaki (Nottingham Trent University, England) takes a pessimistic view. He believes that the "domestication" of the UN by the United States has "severely damaged" both the moral basis of UN pluralism and the legal procedures and rules on which the UN has been based. A product of the "Hegelian fallacy of identifying success with being right," the US elite might not "learn to listen to others" until it suffers a major economic collapse, he posits (p. 97). In contrast to the chapters by Joenniemi, Neumann, and Patomaki, which view Kosovo as a product of the decay of modern institutions, the next three chapters by Maja Zehfuss (University of Warwick, England), Andreas Behnke (Stockholm University), and Mika Aaltola (University of Tampere, Finland) investigate the symbolic nature of the Kosovo crisis, the "virtualization"of politics, and the language games involved in enemy creation and identity construction. Mikkel Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) discusses the use of the concept of "civilization" to justify the bombings in Kosovo when the West realized that the campaign had only the flimsiest foundations in international law. In the final chapter, Christoph Z�rcher (Free University of Berlin) shows how the Kosovo and Chechen conflicts resemble each other: both are post-socialist, post-imperialist conflicts not easily explained by realist approaches. Both conflicts were also largely influenced by domestic considerations and by the need of Russia and NATO respectively to "send messages" (p. 193).Read more

Subjects:  1. Balkan Peninsula - History    2. Civil War, 1998-1999    3. Eastern Europe - General    4. Europe    5. Europe - Baltic States    6. Europe - General    7. Europe - History    8. History    9. History - General History    10. Kosovo (Serbia)    11. National security    12. Nationalism    13. Political    14. Political Freedom & Security - International Secur    15. Politics/International Relations    16. Political Science / International Security   

Subjects:  1. Bulgaria    2. European history: First World War    3. First World War, 1914-1918    4. Greece    5. Land forces & warfare    6. Montenegro    7. Romania    8. Serbia   

Subjects:  1. Athos    2. Greece    3. Hilandar (Monastery : Athos, G    4. Hilandar (Monastery : Athos, Greece)    5. History    6. Monasticism and religious orde    7. Monasticism and religious orders, Orthodox Eastern    8. Religion    9. Religious Congregations And Orders    10. Serbia    11. Christian communities & monasticism    12. Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia   

Subjects:  1. History: World   

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An outstanding book!!!
If you are interested on learning about German and Austro-Hungarian war plans on the Eastern front, this is the book you should get. Count von Schlieffen did not only think on his war against France; he was aware of the menace Russia and Serbia meant not only for the German Empire, but also for Austria-Hungary.This book is outstanding -from my point of view- mainly because of the sources on which the resaerch is based.Also, it is so well written that on can actually imagine the austro-hungarian forces being transferred from one front to another on overcrowded rail tracks, as well as the German High Command considering which moves to make on the East.Mr. Tunstall also deals with Conrad von Hotzendorf, Imperial Chief of Staff of Austria-Hungary, whose constant mistakes seem to have put the Empire in such awckward position that without German help one can seriously doubt if they could have lasted more than one year of war.This is a must read for any really interested on the First World War.

Distinctive, delta of history
I have read this book twice now and have never found an insipid moment.This book refocuses history as we know it.Tunstall is brilliant, commendable, unrelenting.I am looking forward to many future succusses in literature. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Causes    2. Eastern question (Balkan)    3. History - Military / War    4. History: World    5. Military - World War I    6. Military History - Modern    7. Triple Alliance, 1882    8. World War, 1914-1918    9. 20th century    10. Defence strategy, planning & research    11. Europe    12. European history: First World War    13. c 1800 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. History / Europe / General    2. Ragusa,Dalmatia,History,description,travel,Albania,Montenegro,William Frederic,Wingfield   

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Deserves ten stars
If you just look at the contributors and authors of this book you will know how good it is. Those who rate this work with one star are same people who do this with every other book that exposes anti-serb propaganda. It is now more than obvious that they are doing this proffesionaly, as a full time job.Neither they have read this book neither they really know what is inside the covers. Their only task is to downgrade any work that could open your eyes regarding ex-Yugo affairs. Do not listen to them and don't let them influence you- this book is a rare gem, and after you read it you will know why.

Left revisionism at its worst!
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it!
Finally a book that shows the true face of the Wetsern Media
I have been waiting for such a book for a long time. First of all let me tell the reader of this review to ignore those morons that gave this book a low grade and call the author boring, reading "entertaining" and "short" history is what made the Kosovo war so appealing to the public in the first place. Read more

Subjects:  1. Civil War, 1998-1999    2. Current Affairs    3. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    4. History    5. History & Theory - General    6. International Relations - General    7. Kosovo (Serbia)    8. Mass Communication Media And Politics    9. Mass media and the war    10. Political    11. Politics - Current Events    12. Politics/International Relations    13. Press coverage    14. Rebellion And Insurgency    15. Political Science / International Relations   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Eastern Europe - Balkan Republics    3. Ethnic Studies - General    4. General    5. History    6. History - General History    7. History: World    8. Nationalism    9. Political Process - General    10. Politics and government    11. Serbia    12. Serbs    13. Yugoslavia    14. History / Europe / Eastern   

Subjects:  1. Australia    2. Australia & New Zealand - General    3. Ethnic Studies - General    4. Ethnic identity    5. History    6. History: World    7. Psychology    8. Serbs    9. Social aspects    10. Yugoslav War, 1991-1995    11. Geography   

Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Art    3. History    4. Serbia   

Subjects:  1. Albania    2. Balkan Peninsula - History    3. History    4. Kosovo (Serbia)    5. Relations    6. Serbia    7. International relations