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 223
... side . There was a big artillery bombard- ment coming from the Serbian side of the Drina . I even saw smoke coming from the cannons on the Serbian side . The Serb and JNA forces who held that part of town were furious to find an ...
... side . There was a big artillery bombard- ment coming from the Serbian side of the Drina . I even saw smoke coming from the cannons on the Serbian side . The Serb and JNA forces who held that part of town were furious to find an ...
Page 274
... side in the war . Shashi Tharoor , a senior UN official , noted that : The difficulty with the safe areas concept at that point in the Bosnian situa- tion was that it looked as if the declaration of safe areas would essentially benefit ...
... side in the war . Shashi Tharoor , a senior UN official , noted that : The difficulty with the safe areas concept at that point in the Bosnian situa- tion was that it looked as if the declaration of safe areas would essentially benefit ...
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... side , had taken to bombing its own people . He had first aired this view in May 1992 , when a mortar bomb crashed into Vase Miskina street in the city center where a queue of civilians were waiting for bread . Twenty - two people had ...
... side , had taken to bombing its own people . He had first aired this view in May 1992 , when a mortar bomb crashed into Vase Miskina street in the city center where a queue of civilians were waiting for bread . Twenty - two people had ...
Contents
LAYING THE CHARGE | 31 |
No One Should Dare to Beat You 377 | 37 |
No Way Back | 48 |
Copyright | |
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