The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Break-up 1980-92

by Branka Magaš

Book Overview

The year 1992, scheduled to be a milestone on the road to European unity, saw Sarajevo and other European cities bombarded slowly to pieces and their inhabitants starved before the TV eyes of the world. It saw two million Bosnian Muslims threatened with Europe's first genocide since the Second World War; most of them already driven from their homes by massacre, rape and terror. It saw Bosnia's legal, multi-ethnic government treated as a mere "warring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086091593X
• ISBN13: 9780860915935
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A well-ordered summary of Balcanian break-up

The author has an objective glance to the disorderand causes of disorder occured in Yugoslavia.Hesuccessfully combines the causes to the uncomfor- table history of Yugoslavia.One thus can get idea of history of Yugoslavia either.Reading the book gives an idea of the total annihilation of many innocence in "old" Yugoslavia...