The Death of YugoslaviaPenguin, 1996 - 400 pages This 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. The book accompanies a six-part series on BBC2, screened in 1995. This edition has one extra chapter that takes the narrative up to the Dayton Accord. |
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Page 293
... Bosnian Croats were , by tradition , much less nationalistic and much more inclined to live in a multi- ethnic Bosnian state than to seek its partition into ethnically - pure units . Of the two Croatian representatives on the Bosnian ...
... Bosnian Croats were , by tradition , much less nationalistic and much more inclined to live in a multi- ethnic Bosnian state than to seek its partition into ethnically - pure units . Of the two Croatian representatives on the Bosnian ...
Page 346
... Bosnian Serbs had been waiting for . Their army , which had lost scores of minor battles elsewhere in Bosnia , wanted an easy victory . The Serbs began to mass around Srebrenica . Even though at the height of his political war against ...
... Bosnian Serbs had been waiting for . Their army , which had lost scores of minor battles elsewhere in Bosnia , wanted an easy victory . The Serbs began to mass around Srebrenica . Even though at the height of his political war against ...
Page 368
... Bosnian armies were chalking up huge and rapid victories in northwest- ern Bosnia . Croatian President Tudjman ... Bosnian army . The Bosnian Serb army was in disarray . Large swaths of territory that had been considered unassailable ...
... Bosnian armies were chalking up huge and rapid victories in northwest- ern Bosnia . Croatian President Tudjman ... Bosnian army . The Bosnian Serb army was in disarray . Large swaths of territory that had been considered unassailable ...
Contents
LAYING THE CHARGE | 31 |
No One Should Dare to Beat You 377 | 37 |
No Way Back | 48 |
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