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Croatia (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

by DK Publishing

Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. S. is the story of a Bosnian woman in exile who has just given birth to an unwanted child-one without a country, a name, a father, or a language. Its birth only reminds her of an even more grueling experience: being repeatedly raped by Serbian... (more)

How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

by Slavenka Drakulic

Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.

The Balkans : nationalism, war, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999

The Balkans : nationalism, war, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999

by Misha Glenny

"The first comprehensive history of the relationship in the modern era between the great powers and the various Balkan peoples." (San Francisco Chronicle) This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives readers the essential historical background to recent events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into... (more)

The bridge over the Drina

by Ivo Andric

Lonely Planet Croatia

by Jeanne Oliver

Chase the ghosts - or your shadow - through the basement halls of Diocletian's Palace in Split, p. 191. Eyeball an elephant amid the subtropical greenery at Tito's hideaway on the Brijuni Islands, p. 135. Sniff out a truffle in the Istrian hills and cook them local-style with eggs or pasta, p. 148. Get your kit off and swim with the naturist locals on the Pakleni Islands, p. 222. Find out if all... (more)

The Blood Price

by Jon Evans

Paul Wood and his girlfriend, Talena, were just tourists in Sarajevo, a city still reeling from the aftermath of civil war. But an unexpected encounter makes them a desperate woman's only hope of escape. Now, to get her to safety, they must navigate through the minefield of warlords, criminals, and peacekeepers that is postwar Bosnia. Pursued by brutal gangsters and unable to leave the country legally, Paul... (more)

Zagreb, Exit South (New Croatia)

by Edo Popovic

" Zagreb, Exit South is a deep, melancholy book about the resignation of the 40 year old, about people who have given up on life, who can only exist on the street or in bars because they fear and dread going home to their high-rise caverns in New Zagreb where the rules of an allegedly organized world reign. But Popovic's characters have no patience with the lies of this world. They have no patience because they... (more)

Sarajevo Marlboro

by Miljenko Jergovic?

"Poetic and moving . . . of the many books written on Bosnia, this collection of stories is perhaps the best."—Slavenka Drakulic´ Sarajevo Marlboro is Miljenko Jergovic´’s remarkable debut collection of stories. Jergovic´ is a child of Sarajevo who remained in the city throughout the war. A dazzling storyteller, he brings a profoundly human, razor-sharp -understanding of the fate of the city’s young Muslims,... (more)

The Canal House (Harvest Book)

by Mark Lee

Photojournalist Nicky Bettencourt thinks he's seen everything until he teams up with the legendary war correspondent Daniel McFarland. To Daniel, the story is everything; people come later. But after a plane crash nearly takes his life, Daniel begins to see the world in a different way. He falls in love with Julia Cadell, an idealistic British doctor, and together they find refuge at an old canal house in the... (more)

The Death of Yugoslavia (BBC)

by Allan Little, Laura Silber

"The Death of Yugoslavia" is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of view.

Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends

Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends

by Lonnie Johnson

Throughout the Cold War era, the Iron Curtain divided Central Europe into a Communist East and a democratic West, and we grew accustomed to looking at this part of the world in bipolar ideological terms. Yet many people living on both sides of the Iron Curtain considered themselves Central Europeans, and the idea of Central Europe was one of the driving forces behind the revolutionary year of 1989 as well as the... (more)

Trespass

by Valerie Martin

Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights . Yet Chloe is disturbed—by the aggression of her government’s foreign policy, by the poacher who roams the land... (more)

Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War

Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War

by Susan L. Woodward

The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991-92 brought about the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, atrocities on massive scale, and a new term, "ethnic cleansing", for the tactics of nationalist civil war. The failure of Western action to prevent the spread of violence or to negotiate peace disheartened Europeans in their drive to greater unity and turned the euphoria about the "new world... (more)

Milosevic: A Biography

by Adam LeBor

Slobodan Milosevic, a man the world hoped it would never see again, is currently on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague for crimes against humanity. This engrossing biography documents the life of the former Serbian leader, whose policies instigated wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo as well as the bloody campaigns of ethnic cleansing that destroyed a once multi-national country.... (more)

War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation

War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation

The violence following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia has lasted for more than a decade and continues to mark the region. This volume analyses the causes of the conflict and describes its course from the onset of war in Croatia to intervention in Kosovo. The book concentrates on four key transformations: the demise of Yugoslavia and the creation of new states; the importance of nationalist ideologies in the... (more)

The Black Book of Bosnia: The Consequences of Appeasement (A New Republic Book)

The Black Book of Bosnia: The Consequences of Appeasement (A New Republic Book)

The war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humanity have been committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, yet American and European policy makers have cravenly stood aside while whole villages and communities were erased from the face of the earth. Americans are appalled by the images on their television screens of the carnage, but most of us are... (more)

The Water Thief

by Ben Pastor

In 304 c.e. Aelius Spartianus, officer and historian at the court of Diocletian in Dalmatia, is writing the biographies of past Roman rulers, including Hadrian, who has been dead for nearly 175 years. Aelius’s particular charge is to investigate the unsolved mystery of the drowning death in the Nile of Hadrian’s favorite, young Antinous. Soon his duty turns twofold: the hunt for Antinous’s grave, supposed to... (more)

Macedonia: Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans

Macedonia: Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans

by John Phillips

A bloody rebellion by Albanian guerrillas demanding equal rights in Macedonia has killed and wounded thousands of people and led to fears that the crisis will embroil Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria and Greece. International intervention brought an uneasy halt to the blood-letting last summer, but hardline Macedonian nationalists have blocked full implementation of the peace agreement and there are now fears that the... (more)

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War, Second Edition

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War, Second Edition

by Marcus Tanner

In this book an eyewitness to the breakup of Yugoslavia provides the first full and impartial account of the rise, fall, and rebirth of Croatia from its medieval origins to today's tentative peace. Marcus Tanner describes the turbulence and drama of Croatia's past and--drawing on his own experience and interviews with many of the leading figures in Croatia's conflict--explains its violent history since... (more)

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Croatia (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

by DK Publishing

S.: A Novel about the Balkans

by Slavenka Drakulic

How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

by Slavenka Drakulic

The Balkans : nationalism, war, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999

by Misha Glenny

The bridge over the Drina

by Ivo Andric

Lonely Planet Croatia

by Jeanne Oliver

The Blood Price

by Jon Evans

Zagreb, Exit South (New Croatia)

by Edo Popovic

Sarajevo Marlboro

by Miljenko Jergovic?

The Canal House (Harvest Book)

by Mark Lee

The Death of Yugoslavia (BBC)

by Allan Little, Laura Silber

Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends

by Lonnie Johnson

Trespass

by Valerie Martin

Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War

by Susan L. Woodward

Milosevic: A Biography

by Adam LeBor

War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation

The Black Book of Bosnia: The Consequences of Appeasement (A New Republic Book)

The Water Thief

by Ben Pastor

Macedonia: Warlords and Rebels in the Balkans

by John Phillips

Croatia: A Nation Forged in War, Second Edition

by Marcus Tanner