The Death of YugoslaviaPenguin Books, 1995 - 400 pages "The Death of Yugoslavia is the first account to go behind the public face of battle and into the closed worlds of the key players in the war. Laura Silber, Balkans correspondent for the Financial Times, and Allan Little, award-winning BBC journalist, plot the road to war and the war itself. They pinpoint the key events that occurred in the capitals of Belgrade and Zagreb, and in villages ravaged by 'ethnic cleansing', and draw on eye-witness testimony, scrupulous research and hundreds of interviews to give unprecedented access to the facts behind the media stories. Challenging the received wisdom that the war occurred as a spontaneous and inevitable eruption of ethnic hatreds, the authors expose, step-by-step, a plan to divide the country by force of arms." "Could anything have been done to prevent this terrible tragedy? What will be its lasting effects? The authors consider these questions and assess the present situation and its implications for future international relations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Page 100
... Knin spoke the western variant of Serbo - Croatian and wrote , mostly , in the Latin script3 . Croatia , in turn , needed Knin because it was the vital rail - and- road junction connecting Zagreb to the southern coast . The interde ...
... Knin spoke the western variant of Serbo - Croatian and wrote , mostly , in the Latin script3 . Croatia , in turn , needed Knin because it was the vital rail - and- road junction connecting Zagreb to the southern coast . The interde ...
Page 108
... Knin . The Croatian Interior Ministry had sent three columns of police vehicles from Zadar , Šibenik and Karlovac - to make good Tudjman's promise to quell the Knin rebel- lion . The telegram warned that the police station at nearby ...
... Knin . The Croatian Interior Ministry had sent three columns of police vehicles from Zadar , Šibenik and Karlovac - to make good Tudjman's promise to quell the Knin rebel- lion . The telegram warned that the police station at nearby ...
Page 109
... Knin and taken control of public buildings , includ- ing the railway station and the post office . Roads were blocked and telephone lines went down14 . Babić was nowhere to be found , only appearing from time to time on Radio Knin by ...
... Knin and taken control of public buildings , includ- ing the railway station and the post office . Roads were blocked and telephone lines went down14 . Babić was nowhere to be found , only appearing from time to time on Radio Knin by ...
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