The Death of YugoslaviaThis 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 223
There was great agitation on the Serbian side . Almost a kilometer from the
bridge there were militiamen and JNA soldiers , all along the river . The whole
area was militarized . I insisted on being allowed to cross the bridge . They let me
pass ...
There was great agitation on the Serbian side . Almost a kilometer from the
bridge there were militiamen and JNA soldiers , all along the river . The whole
area was militarized . I insisted on being allowed to cross the bridge . They let me
pass ...
Page 274
make an arbitrary selection from the other side of a coil of barbed wire : some to
go , others to stay . One man , he said , who had lost an eye , offered to pluck out
the other eye if it meant he could get aboard the evacuation flight . These scenes
...
make an arbitrary selection from the other side of a coil of barbed wire : some to
go , others to stay . One man , he said , who had lost an eye , offered to pluck out
the other eye if it meant he could get aboard the evacuation flight . These scenes
...
Page 310
General Lewis MacKenzie had first given credence to the idea that the Bosnian
government , as part of a strategy to bring the international community into the
war on its side , had taken to bombing its own people . He had first aired this view
in ...
General Lewis MacKenzie had first given credence to the idea that the Bosnian
government , as part of a strategy to bring the international community into the
war on its side , had taken to bombing its own people . He had first aired this view
in ...
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